davidho ,
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Dust-iron deposition supports 33% ± 15% of Southern Ocean annual net community production.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07366-4

GetzlerChem ,
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@davidho The ecological importance of dust blows my mind over and over again. I think a colleague of mine showed that dust-borne iron deposition is the limiting nutrient for some alpine forests.

mogul ,
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@davidho That is wild! Imagine the variety of unforeseeable downstream effects that would appear if we actually managed to green the Sahara...! 🤔

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