Marine snow morphology illuminates the evolution of phytoplankton blooms and determines their subsequent vertical export
The organic carbon produced in the ocean’s surface by phytoplankton is either passed through the food web or exported to the ocean interior as marine snow. The rate and efficiency of such vertical export strongly depend on the size, structure and shape of individual particles, but apart from size, o...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8121919 2023-05-15T15:03:01+02:00 Marine snow morphology illuminates the evolution of phytoplankton blooms and determines their subsequent vertical export Trudnowska, Emilia Lacour, Léo Ardyna, Mathieu Rogge, Andreas Irisson, Jean Olivier Waite, Anya M. Babin, Marcel Stemmann, Lars 2021-05-14 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121919/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33990580 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22994-4 en eng Nature Publishing Group UK http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121919/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33990580 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22994-4 © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . CC-BY Nat Commun Article Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22994-4 2021-05-23T00:34:19Z The organic carbon produced in the ocean’s surface by phytoplankton is either passed through the food web or exported to the ocean interior as marine snow. The rate and efficiency of such vertical export strongly depend on the size, structure and shape of individual particles, but apart from size, other morphological properties are still not quantitatively monitored. With the growing number of in situ imaging technologies, there is now a great possibility to analyze the morphology of individual marine snow. Thus, automated methods for their classification are urgently needed. Consequently, here we present a simple, objective categorization method of marine snow into a few ecologically meaningful functional morphotypes using field data from successive phases of the Arctic phytoplankton bloom. The proposed approach is a promising tool for future studies aiming to integrate the diversity, composition and morphology of marine snow into our understanding of the biological carbon pump. Text Arctic Phytoplankton PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Nature Communications 12 1 |
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The organic carbon produced in the ocean’s surface by phytoplankton is either passed through the food web or exported to the ocean interior as marine snow. The rate and efficiency of such vertical export strongly depend on the size, structure and shape of individual particles, but apart from size, other morphological properties are still not quantitatively monitored. With the growing number of in situ imaging technologies, there is now a great possibility to analyze the morphology of individual marine snow. Thus, automated methods for their classification are urgently needed. Consequently, here we present a simple, objective categorization method of marine snow into a few ecologically meaningful functional morphotypes using field data from successive phases of the Arctic phytoplankton bloom. The proposed approach is a promising tool for future studies aiming to integrate the diversity, composition and morphology of marine snow into our understanding of the biological carbon pump. |
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Marine snow morphology illuminates the evolution of phytoplankton blooms and determines their subsequent vertical export |
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