Abstract Subtropical gyres cover 26%–29% of the world's surface ocean and are
conventionally regarded as ocean deserts due to their permanent stratification, depleted …

The “biological pump” is the process by which photosynthetically-produced organic matter in
the ocean descends from the surface layer to depth by a combination of sinking particles …

Vegetated coastal habitats, including seagrass and macroalgal beds, mangrove forests and
salt marshes, form highly productive ecosystems, but their contribution to the global carbon …

The carbon burial in vegetated sediments, ignored in past assessments of carbon burial in
the ocean, was evaluated using a bottom-up approach derived from upscaling a compilation …

Past model studies have projected a global decrease in marine net primary production
(NPP) over the 21st century, but these studies focused on the multi-model mean rather than …

Diverse microbial ecosystems underpin life in the sea. Among these microbes are many
unicellular eukaryotes that span the diversity of the eukaryotic tree of life. However, genetic …

Atmospheric deposition of semivolatile aromatic hydrocarbons accounts for an important
input of organic matter to the surface ocean. Nevertheless, the biogeochemical cycling and …

Globally, rivers deliver significant quantities of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to the
coastal ocean each year. Currently, there are no viable estimates of how much of this N and …

Classically, biomass partitioning across trophic levels was thought to add up to a pyramidal
distribution. Numerous exceptions have, however, been noted including complete pyramidal …

The distribution of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration across coastal waters was
characterized based on the compilation of 3510 individual estimates of DOC in coastal …