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The Supply of Iron to Diatoms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

H. W. Harvey
H. W. Harvey
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Hydrographer at the Plymouth Laboratory
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The nature of iron occurring in sea water, and its utilization by diatoms, is discussed.

Diatoms in the sea obtain many thousand times more iron than calculation shows they can obtain by diffusion of iron ions from the surrounding water.

Evidence is presented that ferric hydroxide is readily adsorbed on the surface of diatoms.

It is shown that colloidal and larger particles of ferric hydroxide or phosphate can be utilized by, and support the growth of diatoms.

Experiments show that the diatoms Nitzschia closterium and Lauderia borealis require, for continued growth, a very small quantity of iron compared with that found on, and in, diatoms taken from the open sea.

It is contended that iron hydroxide adsorbed on diatoms is in contact with an interface where its solution, and subsequent passage into the cell, is probable.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , November 1937 , pp. 205 - 219
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1937

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