Abstract Subtropical gyres cover 26%–29% of the world's surface ocean and are
conventionally regarded as ocean deserts due to their permanent stratification, depleted …

Rapid developments of deep-sea researches in China over the past 20 years have
promoted the South China Sea (SCS) into the international deep-sea frontiers. The “three …

Seamounts are ecological oases nurturing abundant fisheries resources and epibenthic
megafauna in the vast oligotrophic ocean. Despite their significance, the formation …

Typhoons are assumed to stimulate ocean primary production through the upward mixing of
nutrients into the surface ocean, based largely on observations of increased surface …

Global coastal oceans as a whole represent an important carbon sink but, due to high
spatial–temporal variability, a mechanistic conceptualization of the coastal carbon cycle is …

Abstract The Kuroshio Current has been thought to be biologically unproductive because of
its oligotrophic conditions and low plankton standing stocks. Even though vulnerable life …

We have investigated the effect of eddies (cold and warm eddies, CEs and WEs) on the
nutrient supply to the euphotic zone and the organic carbon export from the euphotic zone to …

The surface mixed layer (ML) in the Mediterranean Sea is a well stratified domain
characterized by low macro-nutrient and low chlorophyll content, during almost 6 months of …

This work examines the seasonal cycle of vertical density structure and its influence on
primary production in a temperate shelf sea, with a particular focus on the breakdown of …

The chlorophyll-a concentration (CHL) is an essential climate variable. Extremes of CHL
events directly reflect the condition of marine ecosystems. Here, we applied the statistical …