@article{6a7cd7ab094146d79de2eb0a9c06c884,
title = "Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet",
abstract = "Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet is a leading cause of land-ice mass loss and cryosphere-attributed sea level rise. Blooms of pigmented glacier ice algae lower ice albedo and accelerate surface melting in the ice sheet{\textquoteright}s southwest sector. Although glacier ice algae cause up to 13% of the surface melting in this region, the controls on bloom development remain poorly understood. Here we show a direct link between mineral phosphorus in surface ice and glacier ice algae biomass through the quantification of solid and fluid phase phosphorus reservoirs in surface habitats across the southwest ablation zone of the ice sheet. We demonstrate that nutrients from mineral dust likely drive glacier ice algal growth, and thereby identify mineral dust as a secondary control on ice sheet melting.",
keywords = "Biomass, Ecosystem, Eutrophication/physiology, Freezing, Geography, Global Warming, Greenland, Ice, Ice Cover, Microalgae/cytology, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Minerals/metabolism, Phosphorus/metabolism, Seasons",
author = "Jenine McCutcheon and Stefanie Lutz and Christopher Williamson and Cook, {Joseph M.} and Tedstone, {Andrew J.} and Aubry Vanderstraeten and Wilson, {Siobhan A.} and Anthony Stockdale and Steeve Bonneville and Anesio, {Alexandre M.} and Yallop, {Marian L.} and McQuaid, {James B.} and Martyn Tranter and Benning, {Liane G.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank G Varliero and G Barker for sample collection and S Reid, B Plessen, S Pinkerneil, and A Viet-Hillebrand for their technical support. We thank Caroline Peacock, Dominique Tobler, and Eric Oelkers for their feedback on the manuscript. We acknowledge funding from UK Natural Environment Research Council Consortium Grant, Black and Bloom (NE/M020770/1 and NE/M021025/1). LGB and SL acknowledge funding from the German Helmholtz Recruiting Initiative (award number: I-044-16-01). LGB, AMA, and MT were also supported through an ERC Synergy Grant (ʻDeep Purpleʼ grant # 856416) from the European Research Council (ERC). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s).",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/s41467-020-20627-w",
language = "English",
volume = "12",
journal = "Nature Communications",
issn = "2041-1723",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
number = "1",
}