Sinking jelly-carbon unveils potential environmental variability along a continental margin.

Particulate matter export fuels benthic ecosystems in continental margins and the deep sea, removing carbon from the upper ocean. Gelatinous zooplankton biomass provides a fast carbon vector that has been poorly studied. Observational data of a large-scale benthic trawling survey from 1994 to 2005 p...

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Main Authors: Mario Lebrato, Juan-Carlos Molinero, Joan E Cartes, Domingo Lloris, Frédéric Mélin, Laia Beni-Casadella
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3867349?pdf=render