Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow, phytodetritus and the ocean's biological pump

JT Turner - Progress in Oceanography, 2015 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade

RJW Brewin, S Sathyendranath, G Kulk, MH Rio… - Earth-science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ocean plays a central role in modulating the Earth's carbon cycle. Monitoring how the
ocean carbon cycle is changing is fundamental to managing climate change. Satellite …

An assessment of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 ratios in the ocean and their impact on the application of 234Th as a POC flux proxy

KO Buesseler, CR Benitez-Nelson, SB Moran, A Burd… - Marine Chemistry, 2006 - Elsevier
Thorium-234 is increasingly used as a tracer of ocean particle flux, primarily as a means to
estimate particulate organic carbon export from the surface ocean. This requires …

Characterisation and quantification of organic phosphorus and organic nitrogen components in aquatic systems: a review

PJ Worsfold, P Monbet, AD Tappin, MF Fitzsimons… - Analytica chimica …, 2008 - Elsevier
This review provides a critical assessment of knowledge regarding the determination of
organic phosphorus (OP) and organic nitrogen (ON) in aquatic systems, with an emphasis …

Global POC concentrations from in-situ and satellite data

WD Gardner, AV Mishonov, MJ Richardson - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2006 - Elsevier
During the last three decades significant contributions have been made to understanding
regional and global distribution of chlorophyll in the ocean by developing algorithms from …

Tidal sands as biogeochemical reactors

P Anschutz, T Smith, A Mouret, J Deborde… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2009 - Elsevier
Sandy sediments of continental shelves and most beaches are often thought of as
geochemical deserts because they are usually poor in organic matter and other reactive …

Temporal and spatial variation in tetraether membrane lipids of marine Crenarchaeota in particulate organic matter: Implications for TEX86 paleothermometry

C Wuchter, S Schouten, SG Wakeham… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The TEX86 is a new temperature proxy which is based on the number of cyclopentane
moieties in the glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT) lipids of the membranes of …

Evidence for aggregation and export of cyanobacteria and nano-eukaryotes from the Sargasso Sea euphotic zone

MW Lomas, SB Moran - Biogeosciences, 2011 - bg.copernicus.org
Pico-plankton and nano-plankton are generally thought to represent a negligible fraction of
the total particulate organic carbon (POC) export flux in oligotrophic gyres due to their small …

Getting good particles: Accurate sampling of particles by large volume in‐situ filtration

JKB Bishop, PJ Lam, TJ Wood - Limnology and Oceanography …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We deployed the Multiple Unit Large Volume in‐situ Filtration System (MULVFS) to
simultaneously sample 12 depths between 10 and 900 m during the US GEOTRACES …

Sampling for particulate trace element determination using water sampling bottles: methodology and comparison to in situ pumps

H Planquette, RM Sherrell - Limnology and Oceanography …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Procedures for routine collection and analysis of particulate trace elements from 5‐10 L
samples filtered from rosette‐mounted GO‐FLO bottles were evaluated during the …