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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 42, 期 3, 页码 821-830出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062744
关键词
carbon export; marine particles; transfer efficiency
资金
- Natural Environmental Research Council via the UK Ocean Acidification research program [NE/H017097/1]
- NERC [NE/H017097/1, bas0100025, noc010009] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/H017097/1, noc010009, bas0100025] Funding Source: researchfish
The Southern Ocean (SO) is an important CO2 reservoir, some of which enters via the production, sinking, and remineralization of organic matter. Recent work suggests that the fraction of production that sinks is inversely related to production in the SO, a suggestion that we confirm from 20 stations in the Scotia Sea. The efficiency with which exported material is transferred to depth (transfer efficiency) is believed to be low in high-latitude systems. However, our estimates of transfer efficiency are bimodal, with stations in the seasonal ice zone showing intense losses and others displaying increases in flux with depth. Zooplankton fecal pellets dominated the organic carbon flux and at stations with transfer efficiency >100% fecal pellets were brown, indicative of fresh phytodetritus. We suggest that active flux mediated by zooplankton vertical migration and the presence of sea ice regulates the transfer of organic carbon into the oceans interior in the Southern Ocean.
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