Sink or swim : the fate of particulate organic carbon in the interior ocean
Without small oceanic organisms atmospheric CO2 levels would be about 200 ppm higher than they are today; phytoplankton convert dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) to particulate organic carbon (POC) during photosynthesis, influencing the air-sea exchange of CO2. Eventually some of this POC is exported...
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University of Southampton
2016
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.698375 |