Large deep-sea zooplankton biomass mirrors primary production in the global ocean

S Hernández-León, R Koppelmann… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The biological pump transports organic carbon produced by photosynthesis to the meso-and
bathypelagic zones, the latter removing carbon from exchanging with the atmosphere over …

A new method to estimate the dissolved organic carbon concentration from remote sensing in the global open ocean

AG Bonelli, H Loisel, DSF Jorge, A Mangin… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) represents the largest organic carbon
reservoir in the ocean. Therefore, describing its spatio-temporal distribution is crucial for …

Drivers of plankton distribution across mesoscale eddies at submesoscale range

N Hernández-Hernández, J Arístegui… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cyclonic and anticyclonic eddies are common mesoscale features in the flow past the
Canary Islands throughout the year. While drifting southward, eddy pairs interact among …

[HTML][HTML] Vertical imbalance in organic carbon budgets is indicative of a missing vertical transfer during a phytoplankton bloom near South Georgia (COMICS)

SLC Giering, R Sanders, S Blackbird, N Briggs… - Deep Sea Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
The biological carbon pump, driven principally by surface production and sinking of organic
matter to deep water and its subsequent remineralization to CO 2 maintains atmospheric CO …

Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in the open Mediterranean Sea. I. Basin–wide distribution and drivers of chromophoric DOM

TS Catalá, AM Martínez-Pérez, M Nieto-Cid… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in the open Mediterranean Sea (MedSea)
is barely documented, remaining the basin–wide patterns in intermediate and deep waters …

[HTML][HTML] Suspended particles are hotspots of microbial remineralization in the ocean's twilight zone

V Hemsley, J Füssel, MT Duret, RR Rayne… - Deep Sea Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
The sinking of photosynthetically produced organic carbon from the ocean surface to its
interior is a significant term in the global carbon cycle. Most sinking organic carbon is …

Carbon dioxide degassing and lateral dissolved carbon export during the unprecedented 2019 Mississippi river mega flood–Implications for large river carbon …

YJ Xu, Z Xu - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In 2019, the Mississippi River experienced the longest and largest flood that
surpassed by far the 1927, 1973, and 2011 mega floods. This unprecedented event …

Dissolved carbon transport in a river-lake continuum: A case study in a subtropical watershed, USA

Z Xu, YJ Xu - Science of the total environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Rivers and lakes have been traditionally studied as separate entities for carbon transport.
However, there is a gap in our knowledge of the connectivity of dissolved carbon in a river …

Consistent prokaryotic successional dynamics across contrasting phytoplankton blooms

M Gómez‐Letona, J Arístegui… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Heterotrophic prokaryotes play a vital role in organic matter cycling in the ocean and have
been observed to undergo substrate‐controlled successions during phytoplankton blooms …

Variability in water-column respiration and its dependence on organic carbon sources in the canary current upwelling region

J Arístegui, MF Montero… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plankton respiration (R) is a key factor governing the ocean carbon cycle. However,
although the ocean supports respiratory activity throughout its entire volume, to our …