A review of Si particle fluxes in the modern ocean

• Main Authors: Ragueneau, Olivier, Tréguer, Paul, Leynaert, Aude, Anderson, Robert F, Brzezinski, Mark A, DeMaster, David J, Dugdale, Richard, Dymond, Jack R, Fischer, Gerhard, Francois, Roger, Heinze, Christoph, Maier-Reimer, Ernst, Martin-Jézéquel, Véronique, Nelson, David M, Quéguiner, Bernard
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2000
• Subjects: Barcelona Coast; ORFOIS; Origin and Fate of Biogenic Particle Fluxes in the Ocean; Pertuis Charentais; Silicon Cycling in the World Ocean; SINOPS; Taranto Mare Piccolo; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.787476; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787476

Due to the major role played by diatoms in the biological pump of CO2, and to the presence of silica-rich sediments in areas that play a major role in air-sea CO2 exchange (e.g. the Southern Ocean and the Equatorial Pacific), opal has a strong potential as a proxy for paleoproductivity reconstructio...