Marine particles are key to the cycling of major elements on Earth and play an important role
in the balance of nutrients in the ocean. Three main categories of marine particles link the …

To better quantify the ocean's biological carbon pump, we resolved the diversity of sinking
particles that transport carbon into the ocean's interior, their contribution to carbon export …

The biological pump supplies carbon to the oceans' interior, driving long-term carbon
sequestration and providing energy for deep-sea ecosystems,. Its efficiency is set by …

Abstract The northern Barents Sea is a productive Arctic inflow shelf with a seasonal ice
cover and as such, a location with an efficient downward export of particulate organic matter …

Comprehensive field observations characterizing the biological carbon pump (BCP) provide
the foundation needed to constrain mechanistic models of downward particulate organic …

Until the 1980s, the deep sea was generally considered to be a particularly stable
environment, free from major temporal variations (Sanders, 1968). Studies in the abyssal …

The biological carbon pump, driven principally by surface production and sinking of organic
matter to deep water and its subsequent remineralization to CO 2 maintains atmospheric CO …

The biological carbon pump (BCP) contributes to the oceanic CO 2 sink by transferring
particulate organic carbon (POC) into the deep ocean. The magnitude and efficiency of the …

Radionuclides can provide key information on the temporal dimension of environmental
processes, given their well-known rates of radioactive decay and production. Naturally …

The cycling of marine particulate matter is critical for sequestering carbon in the deep ocean
and in marine sediments. Biogenic minerals such as calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and opal …