Articles | Volume 20, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-997-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-997-2023
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14 Mar 2023
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Model estimates of metazoans' contributions to the biological carbon pump

Jérôme Pinti, Tim DeVries, Tommy Norin, Camila Serra-Pompei, Roland Proud, David A. Siegel, Thomas Kiørboe, Colleen M. Petrik, Ken H. Andersen, Andrew S. Brierley, and André W. Visser

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MATLAB code of a global diel vertical model for several pelagic trophic levels J. Pinti https://gitlab.gbar.dtu.dk/jppi/global-fish-biological-carbon-pump

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Large numbers of marine organisms such as zooplankton and fish perform daily vertical migration between the surface (at night) and the depths (in the daytime). This fascinating migration is important for the carbon cycle, as these organisms actively bring carbon to depths where it is stored away from the atmosphere for a long time. Here, we quantify the contributions of different animals to this carbon drawdown and storage and show that fish are important to the biological carbon pump.
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