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Blooms of Trichodesmium are common in tropical and subtropical seas of all oceans, particularly when winds are calm and water temperature exceeds 26°C. If as few as twenty moderate-size (20,000 km2) blooms occur globally and last for 15 days per year, a total of 5.4 Tg N would be fixed, a value which would more than double the current estimate of pelagic N2 fixation by Trichodesmium in the world’s oceans.
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Carpenter, E.J., Capone, D.G. (1992). Nitrogen Fixation in Trichodesmium Blooms. In: Carpenter, E.J., Capone, D.G., Rueter, J.G. (eds) Marine Pelagic Cyanobacteria: Trichodesmium and other Diazotrophs. NATO ASI Series, vol 362. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7977-3_13
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