Quantifying the carbon export and sequestration pathways of the ocean's biological carbon pump

M Nowicki, T DeVries, DA Siegel - Global Biogeochemical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean's biological carbon pump transfers carbon from the surface ocean to the deep
ocean by several distinct pathways, including gravitational settling of organic particles …

Bluefin larvae in Oligotrophic Ocean Foodwebs, investigations of nutrients to zooplankton: overview of the BLOOFINZ-Gulf of Mexico program

T Gerard, JT Lamkin, TB Kelly, AN Knapp… - Journal of Plankton …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Western Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABT) undertake long-distance migrations from rich feeding
grounds in the North Atlantic to spawn in oligotrophic waters of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) …

Mesoscale ocean fronts enhance carbon export due to gravitational sinking and subduction

MR Stukel, LI Aluwihare, KA Barbeau… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Enhanced vertical carbon transport (gravitational sinking and subduction) at mesoscale
ocean fronts may explain the demonstrated imbalance of new production and sinking …

Taxon-specific phytoplankton growth, nutrient utilization and light limitation in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico

N Yingling, TB Kelly, TA Shropshire… - Journal of Plankton …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The highly stratified, oligotrophic regions of the oceans are predominantly nitrogen limited in
the surface ocean and light limited at the deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM). Hence …

[HTML][HTML] N fixation as a dominant new N source in the western tropical South Pacific Ocean (OUTPACE cruise)

M Caffin, T Moutin, RA Foster… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
We performed nitrogen (N) budgets in the photic layer of three contrasting stations
representing different trophic conditions in the western tropical South Pacific (WTSP) Ocean …

Acoustic characterization of fish and macroplankton communities in the Seychelles-Chagos thermocline ridge of the southwest Indian ocean

M Kang, S Oh, W Oh, DJ Kang, SH Nam… - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, we describe the dynamics of the sound scattering layers (SSLs), particularly
those of fish and macroplankton communities in the epipelagic layer, in the Seychelles …

Stirring up the biological pump: Vertical mixing and carbon export in the Southern Ocean

MR Stukel, HW Ducklow - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The biological carbon pump (BCP) transports organic carbon from the surface to the ocean's
interior via sinking particles, vertically migrating organisms, and passive transport of organic …

Nitrogen uptake and nitrification in the subarctic North Atlantic Ocean

X Peng, SE Fawcett, N Van Oostende… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonium to nitrite and then nitrate, is often discounted as a
source of nitrate in euphotic zone waters due to photoinhibition of nitrifying microorganisms …

Sinking carbon, nitrogen, and pigment flux within and beneath the euphotic zone in the oligotrophic, open-ocean Gulf of Mexico

MR Stukel, TB Kelly, MR Landry… - Journal of Plankton …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
During two cruises in the oligotrophic oceanic Gulf of Mexico, we deployed sediment traps at
three depths: center of the euphotic zone (EZ)(60 m), base of the EZ (117–151 m), and in the …

Cross‐shore flow and implications for carbon export in the California current ecosystem: A Lagrangian analysis

P Chabert, F d'Ovidio, V Echevin… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Eastern Boundary Current Upwelling Systems are regions of elevated primary
production and carbon export and thus play a central role in the global carbon cycle. In …