Zooplankton and the ocean carbon cycle

DK Steinberg, MR Landry - Annual review of marine science, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Marine zooplankton comprise a phylogenetically and functionally diverse assemblage of
protistan and metazoan consumers that occupy multiple trophic levels in pelagic food webs …

Microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter are central to coral reef ecosystem function and resilience

CE Nelson, L Wegley Kelly… - Annual Review of Marine …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
To thrive in nutrient-poor waters, coral reefs must retain and recycle materials efficiently. This
review centers microbial processes in facilitating the persistence and stability of coral reefs …

Impacts of global change on ocean dissolved organic carbon (DOC) cycling

C Lønborg, C Carreira, T Jickells… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is an important player in the functioning of
marine ecosystems. DOC is at the interface between the chemical and the biological worlds …

Diatom modulation of select bacteria through use of two unique secondary metabolites

AA Shibl, A Isaac, MA Ochsenkuhn, A Cárdenas… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Unicellular eukaryotic phytoplankton, such as diatoms, rely on microbial communities for
survival despite lacking specialized compartments to house microbiomes (eg, animal gut) …

Recalcitrant dissolved organic matter and its major production and removal processes in the ocean

R Cai, N Jiao - Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the ocean accounts for nearly 662 Pg of carbon, most of
which is formed into a long-lived carbon pool that plays an important role in carbon …

The Ocean's labile DOC supply chain

MA Moran, FX Ferrer‐González, H Fu… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbes of the surface ocean release, consume, and exchange labile metabolites at time
scales of minutes to days. The details of this important step in the global carbon cycle remain …

[HTML][HTML] Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade

RJW Brewin, S Sathyendranath, G Kulk, MH Rio… - Earth-science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ocean plays a central role in modulating the Earth's carbon cycle. Monitoring how the
ocean carbon cycle is changing is fundamental to managing climate change. Satellite …

The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges

M Vernet, W Geibert, M Hoppema… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Weddell Gyre (WG) is one of the main oceanographic features of the Southern
Ocean south of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current which plays an influential role in global …

The role of organic nutrients in structuring freshwater phytoplankton communities in a rapidly changing world

KL Reinl, TD Harris, I Elfferich, A Coker, Q Zhan… - Water research, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus are critical macroelements in freshwater systems.
Historically, researchers and managers have focused on inorganic forms, based on the …

On the paradox of thriving cold‐water coral reefs in the food‐limited deep sea

SR Maier, S Brooke, LH De Clippele… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The deep sea is amongst the most food‐limited habitats on Earth, as only a small fraction (<
4%) of the surface primary production is exported below 200 m water depth. Here, cold …