What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean?
The ocean contributes to regulating atmospheric CO2 levels, partly via variability in the fraction of primary production (PP) which is exported out of the surface layer (i.e., theeratio). Southern Ocean studies have found that contrary to global-scale analyses, an inverse relationship exists between...
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ftunivsevillair:oai:idus.us.es:11441/149122 2023-10-25T01:43:49+02:00 What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean? Le Moigne, Frédéric A. C. Henson, Stephanie A. Cavan, Emma Georges, Clément Pabortsava, Katsiaryna Achterberg, Eric P. Ceballos Romero, Elena Zubkov, Mike Sanders, Richard J. Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Aplicada II Universidad de Sevilla. RNM138: Física Nuclear Aplicada 2023-09-25T08:03:51Z https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/149122 eng eng Wiley Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (9), 4457-4466. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2016GL068480 https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/149122 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Southern Ocean CO2 levels Dissolved organic carbon info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftunivsevillair 2023-09-26T23:27:01Z The ocean contributes to regulating atmospheric CO2 levels, partly via variability in the fraction of primary production (PP) which is exported out of the surface layer (i.e., theeratio). Southern Ocean studies have found that contrary to global-scale analyses, an inverse relationship exists betweeneratio and PP. This relationship remains unexplained, with potential hypotheses being (i) large export of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in high PP areas, (ii) strong surface microbial recycling in high PP regions, and/or (iii) grazing-mediated export that varies inversely with PP. We find that the export of DOC has a limited influence in setting the negative e ratio/PP relationship. However, we observed that at sites with low PP and high e ratios, zooplankton-mediated export is large and surface microbial abundance low suggesting that both are important drivers of the magnitude of the e ratio in the Southern Ocean. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean idUS - Deposito de Investigación Universidad de Sevilla Southern Ocean |
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Southern Ocean CO2 levels Dissolved organic carbon Le Moigne, Frédéric A. C. Henson, Stephanie A. Cavan, Emma Georges, Clément Pabortsava, Katsiaryna Achterberg, Eric P. Ceballos Romero, Elena Zubkov, Mike Sanders, Richard J. What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean? |
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The ocean contributes to regulating atmospheric CO2 levels, partly via variability in the fraction of primary production (PP) which is exported out of the surface layer (i.e., theeratio). Southern Ocean studies have found that contrary to global-scale analyses, an inverse relationship exists betweeneratio and PP. This relationship remains unexplained, with potential hypotheses being (i) large export of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in high PP areas, (ii) strong surface microbial recycling in high PP regions, and/or (iii) grazing-mediated export that varies inversely with PP. We find that the export of DOC has a limited influence in setting the negative e ratio/PP relationship. However, we observed that at sites with low PP and high e ratios, zooplankton-mediated export is large and surface microbial abundance low suggesting that both are important drivers of the magnitude of the e ratio in the Southern Ocean. |
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Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Aplicada II Universidad de Sevilla. RNM138: Física Nuclear Aplicada |
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Le Moigne, Frédéric A. C. Henson, Stephanie A. Cavan, Emma Georges, Clément Pabortsava, Katsiaryna Achterberg, Eric P. Ceballos Romero, Elena Zubkov, Mike Sanders, Richard J. |
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Le Moigne, Frédéric A. C. Henson, Stephanie A. Cavan, Emma Georges, Clément Pabortsava, Katsiaryna Achterberg, Eric P. Ceballos Romero, Elena Zubkov, Mike Sanders, Richard J. |
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Le Moigne, Frédéric A. C. |
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What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean? |
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What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean? |
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What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean? |
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What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean? |
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What causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean? |
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what causes the inverse relationship between primary production and export efficiency in the southern ocean? |
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2023 |
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Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (9), 4457-4466. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2016GL068480 https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/149122 |
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