期刊
BIOESSAYS
卷 42, 期 12, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000149
关键词
biological carbon pump; climate regulation; detritus; fragmentation; ocean carbon cycle; zooplankton
资金
- NERC (COMICS) [NE/M020835/1]
- EU (MEESO) [817669]
- EU (SUMMER) [817806]
- EU (MISSION ATLANTIC) [862428]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- NERC [noc010009, noc010010] Funding Source: UKRI
Ocean biology helps regulate global climate by fixing atmospheric CO2 and exporting it to deep waters as sinking detrital particles. New observations demonstrate that particle fragmentation is the principal factor controlling the depth to which these particles penetrate the ocean's interior, and hence how long the constituent carbon is sequestered from the atmosphere. The underlying cause is, however, poorly understood. We speculate that small, particle-associated copepods, which intercept and inadvertently break up sinking particles as they search for attached protistan prey, are the principle agents of fragmentation in the ocean. We explore this idea using a new marine ecosystem model. Results indicate that explicitly representing particle fragmentation by copepods in biogeochemical models offers a step change in our ability to understand the future evolution of biologically-mediated ocean carbon storage. Our findings highlight the need for improved understanding of the distribution, abundance, ecology and physiology of particle-associated copepods.
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