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Role of macroscopic particles in deep-sea oxygen consumption.

ABSTRACT: Macroscopic particles (>500 mum), including marine snow, large migrating zooplankton, and their fast-sinking fecal pellets, represent primary vehicles of organic carbon flux from the surface to the deep sea. In contrast, freely suspended microscopic particles such as bacteria and protists do not sink, and they contribute the largest portion of metabolism in the upper ocean. In bathy- and abyssopelagic layers of the ocean (2,000-6,000 m), however, microscopic particles may not dominate oxygen consumption. In a section across the tropical Atlantic, we show that macroscopic particle peaks occurred frequently in the deep sea, whereas microscopic particles were barely detectable. In 10 of 17 deep-sea profiles (>2,000 m depth), macroscopic particle abundances were more strongly cross-correlated with oxygen deficits than microscopic particles, suggesting that biomass bound to large particles dominates overall deep-sea metabolism.

SUBMITTER: Bochdansky AB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2889554 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Role of macroscopic particles in deep-sea oxygen consumption.

Bochdansky Alexander B AB van Aken Hendrik M HM Herndl Gerhard J GJ

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100420 18

Macroscopic particles (>500 mum), including marine snow, large migrating zooplankton, and their fast-sinking fecal pellets, represent primary vehicles of organic carbon flux from the surface to the deep sea. In contrast, freely suspended microscopic particles such as bacteria and protists do not sink, and they contribute the largest portion of metabolism in the upper ocean. In bathy- and abyssopelagic layers of the ocean (2,000-6,000 m), however, microscopic particles may not dominate oxygen con ...[more]

PMID: 20406905

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