[HTML][HTML] Sources, sinks, and cycling of dissolved organic copper binding ligands in the ocean

A Ruacho, C Richon, H Whitby… - Communications Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Organic Cu-binding ligands have a fundamental influence on Cu distributions in the global
ocean and they complex> 99% of the dissolved Cu in seawater. Cu-binding ligands …

Cu exists predominantly as kinetically inert complexes throughout the interior of the Equatorial and North Pacific Ocean

R Moriyasu, SG John, X Bian, SC Yang… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The chemistry of copper (Cu) in seawater is well known to be dominated by complexation
with organic ligands. The prevailing paradigm is that Cu forms strong but labile complexes …

[HTML][HTML] The complex provenance of Cu-binding ligands in the South-East Atlantic

R Zitoun, EP Achterberg, TJ Browning, LJ Hoffmann… - Marine Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Organic ligands play a key role in the marine biogeochemical cycle of copper (Cu), a bio-
essential element, regulating its solubility and bioavailability. However, the sources …

Dissolved copper speciation in the Tasman Sea, SW Pacific ocean

CM Thompson, MJ Ellwood, SG Sander - Marine Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
The speciation of copper (Cu) in seawater is dominated by organic complexation but the
sources, distribution and nature of these natural organic ligands remain unclear. The spatial …

Organic dissolved copper speciation across the US GEOTRACES equatorial Pacific zonal transect GP16

A Ruacho, RM Bundy, CP Till, S Roshan, J Wu… - Marine chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Samples for organic copper (Cu)-binding ligand characterization were collected along the
2013 US GEOTRACES Pacific (GP16) cruise transect from Peru to Tahiti. Full depth profiles …

Fluxes of copper‐complexing ligands from estuarine sediments

SA Skrabal, JR Donat… - Limnology and …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
Most studies of the organic complexation of Cu in natural waters have focused on
distributions and processes in the water column, where a significant fraction of Cu …

River discharge of strong Cu-complexing ligands to South Atlantic Bight waters

GC Shank, SA Skrabal, RF Whitehead, GB Avery… - Marine chemistry, 2004 - Elsevier
Discharge of dissolved organic matter (DOM) provides an important source of strong Cu-
complexing ligands to the coastal ocean waters of Long Bay off the southeast coast of North …

Characterization of Cu (II)-binding ligands from the Chesapeake Bay using high-performance size-exclusion chromatography and mass spectrometry

RW Vachet, MB Callaway - Marine chemistry, 2003 - Elsevier
The speciation of Cu (II) in marine waters is dominated by organic ligands, which have
resisted detailed chemical characterization. In this work we have used immobilized-metal …

Distribution and speciation of copper and its relationship with FDOM in the East China Sea

KH Wong, H Obata, T Kim, Y Wakuta, S Takeda - Marine Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Total dissolved Cu concentrations, concentrations and conditional stability constants of Cu-
binding organic ligands, and the intensities of fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution of copper-complexing ligands in Canadian Arctic waters as determined by immobilized copper (II)-ion affinity chromatography

RL Nixon, SL Jackson, JT Cullen, ARS Ross - Marine Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Complexation by dissolved organic ligands affects the bioavailability and distribution of
copper and other bioactive trace metals in seawater. However, relatively little is known about …