Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

P Tréguer, C Bowler, B Moriceau, S Dutkiewicz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Diatoms sustain the marine food web and contribute to the export of carbon from the surface
ocean to depth. They account for about 40% of marine primary productivity and particulate …

Quantifying the degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: A review and synthesis

S Arndt, BB Jørgensen, DE LaRowe, JJ Middelburg… - Earth-science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Quantifying the rates of biogeochemical processes in marine sediments is essential for
understanding global element cycles and climate change. Because organic matter …

The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO2 concentration

DM Sigman, MP Hain, GH Haug - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Global climate and the atmospheric partial pressure of carbon dioxide () are correlated over
recent glacial cycles, with lower during ice ages, but the causes of the changes are …

Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

V Smetacek, C Klaas, VH Strass, P Assmy… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
Fertilization of the ocean by adding iron compounds has induced diatom-dominated
phytoplankton blooms accompanied by considerable carbon dioxide drawdown in the …

Marine phytoplankton temperature versus growth responses from polar to tropical waters–outcome of a scientific community-wide study

PW Boyd, TA Rynearson, EA Armstrong, F Fu… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
“It takes a village to finish (marine) science these days” Paraphrased from Curtis
Huttenhower (the Human Microbiome project) The rapidity and complexity of climate change …

Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current

P Assmy, V Smetacek, M Montresor… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Diatoms of the iron-replete continental margins and North Atlantic are key exporters of
organic carbon. In contrast, diatoms of the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current …

Increased dust deposition in the Pacific Southern Ocean during glacial periods

F Lamy, R Gersonde, G Winckler, O Esper, A Jaeschke… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Dust deposition in the Southern Ocean constitutes a critical modulator of past global climate
variability, but how it has varied temporally and geographically is underdetermined. Here …

Links between iron supply, marine productivity, sea surface temperature, and CO2 over the last 1.1 Ma

A Martínez‐Garcia, A Rosell‐Melé, W Geibert… - …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Paleoclimatic reconstructions have provided a unique data set to test the sensitivity of
climate system to changes in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, the mechanisms …

Reviews and syntheses: Ocean iron fertilization experiments–past, present, and future looking to a future Korean Iron Fertilization Experiment in the Southern Ocean …

JE Yoon, KC Yoo, AM Macdonald, HI Yoon… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
Since the start of the industrial revolution, human activities have caused a rapid increase in
atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) concentrations, which have, in turn, had an impact on …

Lowering of glacial atmospheric CO2 in response to changes in oceanic circulation and marine biogeochemistry

V Brovkin, A Ganopolski, D Archer… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
We use an Earth system model of intermediate complexity, CLIMBER‐2, to investigate what
recent improvements in the representation of the physics and biology of the glacial ocean …