New production

In biological oceanography, new production is supported by nutrient inputs from outside the euphotic zone, especially upwelling of nutrients from deep water, but also from terrestrial and atmosphere sources (as opposite to regenerated production, which is supported by recycling of nutrients in the euphotic zone). New production depends on mixing and vertical advective processes associated with the circulation.[1]

  1. ^ Richard W. Eppley; Bruce J. Peterson. "Particulate organic matter flux and planktonic new production in the deep ocean". Nature Vol. 282: 677-680.