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PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 116, 期 -, 页码 14-30出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.05.013
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- Moore Foundation
- NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship
- University of California Ship Funds
- Project Kaisei/Ocean Voyages Institute
- NSF IGERT Grant [0333444]
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1026607] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The role of fishes in the global carbon cycle is poorly known and often neglected. We show that the biomass of mesopelagic fishes off the continental USA west to longitude 141 degrees W is positively related to annual net primary productivity, and averages 17 g m(-2). We estimate the export of carbon out of the epipelagic ocean mediated by mesopelagic fishes (fish-mediated export; FME) with individual-based metabolic modeling using the catch from 77 mesopelagic trawls distributed over the study area. FME was 15-17% (22-24 mg C m(-2) d(-1)) of the total carbon exported in the study area (144 mg C m(-2) d(-1)), as estimated from satellite data. FME varies spatially in both magnitude and relative importance. Although the magnitude of FME increases with increasing total export, the ratio of FME to total export decreases. FME exceeds 40% of the total carbon export in the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, but forms <10% of the total export in the most productive waters of the California Current. Because the daytime residence depth of these fishes is below the depths where most remineralization of sinking particles occurs, FME is approximately equal to the passive transport at a depth of 400 m. The active transport of carbon by mesopelagic fishes and zooplankton is similar in magnitude to the gap between estimates of carbon export obtained with sediment traps and by other methods. FME should be considered in models of the global carbon cycle. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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