The Impact of Zooplankton Calcifiers on the Marine Carbon Cycle

Knecht, Nielja S.; Benedetti, Fabio; Hofmann Elizondo, Urs; Bednaršek, Nina; Chaabane, Sonia; de Weerd, Catharina; Peijnenburg, Katja T. C. A.; Schiebel, Ralf; Vogt, Meike

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The Impact of Zooplankton Calcifiers on the Marine Carbon Cycle

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2023
By Knecht, Nielja S. ; Benedetti, Fabio ; Hofmann Elizondo, Urs ; ...

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Global Biogeochemical Cycles
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Knecht, Nielja S. ; Benedetti, Fabio ; Hofmann Elizondo, Urs ; Bednaršek, Nina ; Chaabane, Sonia ; de Weerd, Catharina ; Peijnenburg, Katja T. C. A. ; Schiebel, Ralf ; Vogt, Meike
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CIMRS (Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies)
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Shelled pteropods and planktic foraminifers are calcifying zooplankton that contribute to the biological carbon pump via the sinking of their calcareous shells. However, their importance for regional and global plankton biomass and carbon fluxes is not well understood. Here, we modeled global annual patterns of pteropod and foraminifer total carbon (TC) biomass and total inorganic carbon (TIC) export fluxes over the top 200 m using five species distribution models (SDMs). An extended version of the MARine Ecosystem DATa (MAREDAT) of zooplankton abundance observations was used to estimate the biomass of both plankton groups. We found hotspots of mean annual pteropod biomass in the high Northern latitudes and the global
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Atmospheric Science Environmental Chemistry General Environmental Science Global And Planetary Change Global And Planetary Change Global And Planetary Change
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Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 37(6)
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022gb007685
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0886-6236 ; 1944-9224
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
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