Monitoring and modelling marine zooplankton in a changing climate

L Ratnarajah, R Abu-Alhaija, A Atkinson… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Zooplankton are major consumers of phytoplankton primary production in marine
ecosystems. As such, they represent a critical link for energy and matter transfer between …

Ecosystem function and services of aquatic predators in the Anthropocene

N Hammerschlag, OJ Schmitz, AS Flecker… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019‏ - cell.com
Arguments for the need to conserve aquatic predator (AP) populations often focus on the
ecological and socioeconomic roles they play. Here, we summarize the diverse ecosystem …

Changing biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and its ecosystem implications

SF Henley, EL Cavan, SE Fawcett, R Kerr… - Frontiers in marine …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
The Southern Ocean plays a critical role in regulating global climate as a major sink for
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), and in global ocean biogeochemistry by supplying …

The role of biota in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle

PW Boyd, KR Arrigo, M Ardyna, S Halfter… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean, although relatively understudied owing to its harsh
environment and geographical isolation, has been shown to contribute substantially to …

The importance of Antarctic krill in biogeochemical cycles

EL Cavan, A Belcher, A Atkinson, SL Hill… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are swarming, oceanic crustaceans, up to two inches
long, and best known as prey for whales and penguins–but they have another important …

[کتاب][B] Marine microbiology: ecology & applications

C Munn, CB Munn - 2019‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The third edition of this bestselling text has been rigorously updated to reflect major new
discoveries and concepts since 2011, especially progress due to extensive application of …

The contribution of penguin guano to the Southern Ocean iron pool

O Belyaev, E Sparaventi, G Navarro… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Iron plays a crucial role in the high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll Southern Ocean regions,
promoting phytoplankton growth and enhancing atmospheric carbon sequestration. In this …

Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigation

AH Martin, HC Pearson, GK Saba, EM Olsen - One Earth, 2021‏ - cell.com
In the last decade, the ocean has absorbed a quarter of the Earth's greenhouse gas
emissions through the carbon (C) cycle, a naturally occurring process. Aspects of the ocean …

[HTML][HTML] A nature-based negative emissions technology able to remove atmospheric methane and other greenhouse gases

T Ming, R de Richter, FD Oeste, R Tulip… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Fulfilling the Paris Climate Agreement requires reducing rapidly the new emissions
of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to reach net zero by 2050. As some anthropogenic emissions …

Multi-locus DNA metabarcoding of zooplankton communities and scat reveal trophic interactions of a generalist predator

EL Carroll, R Gallego, MA Sewell, J Zeldis… - Scientific Reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
To understand the ecosystem dynamics that underpin the year-round presence of a large
generalist consumer, the Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera edeni brydei), we use a DNA …