Zooplankton mortality effects on the plankton community of the northern Humboldt Current System: sensitivity of a regional biogeochemical model

Hill Cruz, Mariana; Kriest, Iris; José, Yonss Saranga; Kiko, Rainer; Hauss, Helena; Oschlies, Andreas

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2891-2021

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2891-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2891-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 18, issue 9

Research article

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12 May 2021

Research article |

| 12 May 2021

Zooplankton mortality effects on the plankton community of the northern Humboldt Current System: sensitivity of a regional biogeochemical model

Mariana Hill Cruz, Iris Kriest, Yonss Saranga José, Rainer Kiko, Helena Hauss, and Andreas Oschlies

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RC1: 'Comments on Zooplankton mortality effects on the plankton community of the Northern Humboldt Current System: Sensitivity of a regional biogeochemical model', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Jan 2021
- AC1: 'Reply on RC1', Mariana Hill Cruz, 22 Feb 2021
RC2: 'Review of manuscript by Hill Cruz et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 11 Jan 2021
- AC2: 'Reply on RC2', Mariana Hill Cruz, 22 Feb 2021
RC3: '“Zooplankton mortalityeffects on the plankton community of the NorthernHumboldt Current System: Sensitivity of aregional biogeochemical model”byMariana Hill Cruz et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 22 Jan 2021
- AC3: 'Reply on RC3', Mariana Hill Cruz, 22 Feb 2021

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (03 Mar 2021) by Ciavatta Stefano

AR by Mariana Hill Cruz on behalf of the Authors (16 Mar 2021) Author's response Author's tracked changes Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (22 Mar 2021) by Ciavatta Stefano

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In this study we use a regional biogeochemical model of the eastern tropical South Pacific Ocean to implicitly simulate the effect that fluctuations in populations of small pelagic fish, such as anchovy and sardine, may have on the biogeochemistry of the northern Humboldt Current System. To do so, we vary the zooplankton mortality in the model, under the assumption that these fishes eat zooplankton. We also evaluate the model for the first time against mesozooplankton observations.