The relative importance of phytoplankton aggregates and zooplankton fecal pellets to carbon export: insights from free-drifting sediment trap deployments in naturally iron-fertilised waters near the Kerguelen Plateau

Laurenceau-Cornec, E. C.; Trull, T. W.; Davies, D. M.; Bray, S. G.; Doran, J.; Planchon, F.; Carlotti, F.; Jouandet, M.-P.; Cavagna, A.-J.; Waite, A. M.; Blain, S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1007-2015

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KEOPS2: Kerguelen Ocean and Plateau Study 2

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17 Feb 2015

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| 17 Feb 2015

The relative importance of phytoplankton aggregates and zooplankton fecal pellets to carbon export: insights from free-drifting sediment trap deployments in naturally iron-fertilised waters near the Kerguelen Plateau

E. C. Laurenceau-Cornec, T. W. Trull, D. M. Davies, S. G. Bray, J. Doran, F. Planchon, F. Carlotti, M.-P. Jouandet, A.-J. Cavagna, A. M. Waite, and S. Blain

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RC C5632: 'Comment on "The relative importance of phytoplankton aggregates and zooplankton fecal pellets to carbon export: insights from free-drifting sediment trap deployments in naturally iron-fertilised waters near the Kerguelen plateau" by Laurenceau et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Oct 2014
- AC C7352: 'Response to anonymous referee#1', EMMANUEL C. LAURENCEAU-CORNEC, 13 Dec 2014
RC C6104: 'Comments on the Ms “The relative importance of phytoplankton aggregates and zooplankton fecal pellets to carbon export: insights from free-drifting sediment trap deployments in naturally iron-fertilised waters near the Kerguelen plateau”', Anonymous Referee #2, 23 Oct 2014
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AR by Emmanuel C. Laurenceau-Cornec on behalf of the Authors (16 Dec 2014) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (05 Jan 2015) by Ingrid Obernosterer

Dear Emmanuel Laurenceau-Cornec,

I am pleased to inform you that your manuscript can now be accepted for publication in the Special Issue KEOPS2.

Please find below some minor comments on your revised version of the manuscript. « author-response-version1 ».

Kind regards,

Ingrid Obernosterer

p. 1. : Please change affiliation of Stéphane Blain to
1- Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7621, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650 Banyuls/mer, France
2- CNRS, UMR 7621, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Microbienne, Observatoire Océanologique, F-66650 Banyuls/mer, France

p. 24 and Table 6. What does the percent diatom species contribution exactly stand for? …the diatom community was dominated…..in terms of cell counts or carbon biomass? Please add this information to the text and the Table 6.
p. 24: middle paragraph: Carlotti et al. 2014
p. 24: Mesozooplankton biomass was “high”: could you change to “higher than at R-2” or “X-fold higher than at R-2”, because the mesozooplankton biomass was still much lower (about 10-times) during KEOPS2 than KEOPS1
p. 26 : …the orgaic carbon flows towardS paths…
p.26 : eliminate comma after (GCP)
p.26 : change to : …the different loss terms such as bacterial, microplankton and mesozooplankton respiration, and viral lysis of bacterial cells.
p. 27 : change to …is subject to large variations…
References :
The paper by Urania is now Biogeosciences, not Discussion any more.
Christaki U., Lefèvre D., Georges C., Colombet J., Catala P., Sime-Ngando T., Blain S., Obernosterer I. (2014) Microbial food web dynamics during spring phytoplankton blooms in the naturally ironfertilized Kerguelen area (Southern Ocean) Biogeosciences 11, 6739-6753.
The paper by Francesco is submitted to BGD

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