However during the bloom triggered by the ash deposits from the eruption, the team recorded that it was a shortage of nitrogen that limited the size of the phytoplankton bloom and - as a result - the volume of carbon dioxide uptake.

BBC: Iceland volcano ash cloud triggers plankton bloom

So while the additional dissolved iron triggered an earlier-than-usual phytoplankton bloom, as the metal triggered growth in a greater number of phytoplankton cells, the bloom was only 15-20% larger than normal because the growth was limited by the amount of available nitrogen, another vital ingredient required for the organisms to develop.

BBC: Iceland volcano ash cloud triggers plankton bloom

He thinks there'll be phytoplankton boom - bloom, and it'll suck all the CO2 out of the air.

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