Research article | Highlight paper |
| 14 Mar 2023
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
VKR Centre for Ocean Life, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE 19958, USA
Tim DeVries
Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Tommy Norin
VKR Centre for Ocean Life, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Camila Serra-Pompei
VKR Centre for Ocean Life, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Roland Proud
Pelagic Ecology Research Group, School of Biology, Gatty Marine Laboratory, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 8LB, UK
David A. Siegel
Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Earth Research Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Thomas Kiørboe
VKR Centre for Ocean Life, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Colleen M. Petrik
Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 3146 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92107, USA
Ken H. Andersen
VKR Centre for Ocean Life, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
Andrew S. Brierley
Pelagic Ecology Research Group, School of Biology, Gatty Marine Laboratory, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 8LB, UK
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.
Large numbers of marine organisms such as zooplankton and fish perform daily vertical migration...
