Biogeochemical extremes and compound events in the ocean

N Gruber, PW Boyd, TL Frölicher, M Vogt - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The ocean is warming, losing oxygen and being acidified, primarily as a result of
anthropogenic carbon emissions. With ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation …

Organic matter supply and utilization in oxygen minimum zones

A Engel, R Kiko, M Dengler - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Organic matter (OM) plays a significant role in the formation of oxygen minimum zones
(OMZs) and associated biogeochemical cycling. OM supply processes to the OMZ include …

A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 5

R Kiko, M Picheral, D Antoine, M Babin… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Marine particles of different nature are found throughout the global Ocean. The term" marine
particles" describes detritus aggregates, fecal pellets, but also bacterio-, phyto-, zooplankton …

Tackling the jelly web: Trophic ecology of gelatinous zooplankton in oceanic food webs of the eastern tropical Atlantic assessed by stable isotope analysis

X Chi, J Dierking, HJ Hoving, F Lüskow… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gelatinous zooplankton can be present in high biomass and taxonomic diversity in
planktonic oceanic food webs, yet the trophic structuring and importance of this “jelly web” …

A rare oasis effect for forage fauna in oceanic eddies at the global scale

A Receveur, C Menkes, M Lengaigne, A Ariza… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Oceanic eddies are recognized as pivotal components in marine ecosystems, believed to
concentrate a wide range of marine life spanning from phytoplankton to top predators …

Biogeochemical role of subsurface coherent eddies in the ocean: Tracer cannonballs, hypoxic storms, and microbial stewpots?

I Frenger, D Bianchi, C Stührenberg… - Global …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Subsurface eddies are known features of ocean circulation, but the sparsity of observations
prevents an assessment of their importance for biogeochemistry. Here we use a global …

Three‐compartment structure of subsurface‐intensified mesoscale eddies in the ocean

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, W Wang - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mesoscale eddies are energetically dominant and pervasive over most of the world's
oceans. Among them, many are subsurface intensified with strongest signals in the ocean …

Global gradients in species richness of marine plankton functional groups

F Benedetti, N Gruber, M Vogt - Journal of Plankton Research, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The patterns of species diversity of plankton functional groups (PFGs) remain poorly
understood although they matter greatly for marine ecosystem functioning. Here, we use an …

Upwelling and isolation in oxygen-depleted anticyclonic modewater eddies and implications for nitrate cycling

J Karstensen, F Schütte, A Pietri, G Krahmann… - …, 2017 - bg.copernicus.org
The temporal evolution of the physical and biogeochemical structure of an oxygen-depleted
anticyclonic modewater eddy is investigated over a 2-month period using high-resolution …

Global observations of submesoscale coherent vortices in the ocean

D McCoy, D Bianchi, AL Stewart - Progress in Oceanography, 2020 - Elsevier
Subsurface-intensified anticyclones are ubiquitous in the ocean, yet their impact on the large-
scale transport of heat, salt and chemical tracers is poorly understood. These submesoscale …