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Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2517-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2517-2025
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 11
Research article
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04 Jun 2025
Research article |  | 04 Jun 2025

Sea-ice-associated algae and zooplankton fecal pellets fuel organic particle export in the seasonally ice-covered northwestern Labrador Sea

Shao-Min Chen, Thibaud Dezutter, David Cote, Catherine Lalande, Evan Edinger, and Owen A. Sherwood
Editorial note: On 23 April 2026 the Supplement was exchanged because of a mistake in Table S2.

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The origins and composition of sinking organic matter are still understudied for the oceans, especially in ice-covered areas. We use amino acid stable isotopes combined with particle flux and plankton taxonomy to investigate the sources and composition of exported organic matter from a sediment-trap-derived time series of sinking particles in the northwestern Labrador Sea. We found that sea-ice algae and fecal pellets may be important contributors to the sinking fluxes of carbon and nitrogen.
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