COMMENTARY | Understanding the Role of the Biological Pump in the Global Carbon Cycle: An Imperative for Ocean Science

COMMENTARY | Understanding the Role of the Biological Pump in the Global Carbon Cycle: An Imperative for Ocean Science

Anthropogenically driven climate change will rapidly become Earth's dominant transformative influence in the coming decades. The oceanic biological pump—the complex suite of processes that results in the transfer of particulate and dissolved organic carbon from the surface to the deep ocean—con...

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Main Authors: Susumu Honjo, Timothy I. Eglinton, Craig D. Taylor, Kevin M. Ulmer, Stefan Sievert, Astrid Bracher, Christopher German, Virginia Edgcomb, Roger Francois, M. Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez, Benjamin Van Mooy, Daniel J. Repeta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2014-09-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
biological pump
global carbon cycle
global warming
carbon sink
ocean ecosystem
marine biodiversity
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-3_honjo.pdf

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