Effects of UVB radiation on net community production in the upper global ocean

This is a contribution to the Malaspina Expedition 2010, funded by the INGENIO 2010 CONSOLIDER programme (ref. CDS2008-00077) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. We thank the captain and the crew of R/V Hesperides and the UTM for their help onboard and technical support. We also want to thank A. M. Cabello, P. Rial, M. Estrada, M. Latasa, F. Rodriguez and P. Mozetic for providing chlorophyll-a data, J. M. Gasol and X. A. G. Moran for provid- ing HPA data, E. Fraile-Nuez and V. Benitez-Barrios for their work analysing the CTD data and all the Malaspina Expedition participants for their support. L.S.G.-C. was supported by a JAE Pre-doc fellowship from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the BBVA Foundation, Spain.