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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH
卷 38, 期 2, 页码 348-365出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbv097
关键词
biogeochemistry; Eastern Tropical Pacific; plankton; carbon flux; nutrients
资金
- U.S. National Science Foundation [OCE-0826626]
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The Costa Rica Dome is a picophytoplankton-dominated, open-ocean upwelling system in the Eastern Tropical Pacific that overlies the ocean's largest oxygen minimum zone. To investigate the efficiency of the biological pump in this unique area, we used shallow (90-150 m) drifting sediment traps and Th-234: U-238 deficiency measurements to determine export fluxes of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in sinking particles. Simultaneous measurements of nitrate uptake and shallow water nitrification allowed us to assess the equilibrium balance of new and export production over a monthly timescale. While f-ratios (new: total production) were reasonably high (0.36+/-0.12, mean+/-standard deviation), export efficiencies were considerably lower. Sediment traps suggested e-ratios (export/C-14-primary production) at 90-100 m ranging from 0.053 to 0.067. ThE-ratios (Th-234 disequilibrium-derived export) ranged from 0.038 to 0.088. C: N and N: P stoichiometries of sinking material were both greater than canonical (Redfield) ratios or measured C: N of suspended particulates, and they increased with depth, suggesting that both nitrogen and phosphorus were preferentially remineralized from sinking particles. Our results are consistent with an ecosystem in which mesozooplankton play a major role in energy transfer to higher trophic levels but are relatively inefficient in mediating vertical carbon flux to depth, leading to an imbalance between new production and sinking flux.
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