We examine progress towards a global view of oceanic export of particulate organic carbon
(POC) and other nutrient elements (P, N, Si) from the surface (upper 100m), through the …

A critical review of information from~ 7000 plankton, sediment trap and surface sediment
samples from the World Ocean indicates that standing stock and species richness (ie …

This work is based on the compilation of currently accessible (published and unpublished)
data on Radiolaria (Polycystina) distributions from plankton and sediment trap samples, and …

The Japan Sea has its own deep-circulation system, with its deeper parts occupied by cold
and highly oxygenated water formed by winter convection in its northwestern reaches. We …

Zooplankton are important consumers of sinking particles in the ocean's twilight zone.
However, the impact of different taxa depends on their feeding mode. In contrast to typical …

Plankton tows and surface sediments from the Japan Sea, a marginal sea of the
northwestern Pacific, were examined to study the depth distribution of modern radiolarians …

The Rhizaria is a super‐group of amoeboid protists with ubiquitous distributions, from the
euphotic zone to the twilight zone and beyond. While rhizarians have been recently …

Colonial spumellarian Radiolaria are heterotrophic protists that form large (up to several
meters in length), gelatinous structures in the surface waters of all tropical and subtropical …

Previous studies showed that the evolution of the Japan Sea paleoceanography since the
Miocene has been influenced by the regional tectonism (eg, opening/closing of the …

In the open ocean pelagic sedimentation occurs at various scales. As a background signal,
the everyday process is a rather slow and continuous rain of biogenic debris produced …