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SUBMITTER: Belcher A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385259 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Belcher A A Henson S A SA Manno C C Hill S L SL Atkinson A A Thorpe S E SE Fretwell P P Ireland L L Tarling G A GA
Nature communications 20190221 1
The biological carbon pump drives a flux of particulate organic carbon (POC) through the ocean and affects atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. Short term, episodic flux events are hard to capture with current observational techniques and may thus be underrepresented in POC flux estimates. We model the potential hidden flux of POC originating from Antarctic krill, whose swarming behaviour could result in a major conduit of carbon to depth through their rapid exploitation of phytoplankton blooms ...[more]