“…Arrigo and Van Dijken (
2015) hypothesized that phytoplankton in the Chukchi Sea were able to consume a greater proportion of available
, reducing
availability and consequently NPP in the N‐limited Greenland Sea (Krisch et al.,
2020). Reductions in NPP in regions downstream of the Chukchi Sea could substantially limit food available to zooplankton, pelagic fish, marine mammals, and seabirds (Hamilton et al.,
2021; Joiris,
2011; Munk,
2003; Rysgaard et al.,
1999). Additionally, the Chukchi shelf has some of the lowest N* values (a measure of N excess relative to phosphorus; Gruber & Sarmiento,
1997) in the global ocean (Deutsch & Weber,
2012), driven by high sedimentary denitrification (Brown et al.,
2015; Chang & Devol,
2009; Devol et al.,
1997; Mills et al.,
2015).…”