Fish Carbon: Exploring Marine Vertebrate Carbon Services
SOLUBILITY PUMP Transport of CO 2 through the air-sea interface
CO
CO
ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION PATTERNS
2
2
AIR-SEA INTERFACE CO 2
EXCHANGES
Low Latitudes
High Latitudes
CO
CO
CO
CO
PHYSICAL PUMP Transport of CO 2 by Vertical Mixing and Deep Water Masses
2
2
2
2
CO
CO
Deep Water Masses Formation
Respiration
2
2
Long-time Scale Global Action
Food Web
Vertical Mixing Local Action Short-time Scale
Nutrients (Ammonia)
Phytoplankton
Organic Carbon Oxygen
Nutrients CO 2
Primary Production
CO
2
Bacteria Remineralization
Egestion
Nutrients
Decomposition
(Nitrate)
Particulate Carbon (Organic and Inorganic)
Sinking
Nutrients (Nitrate)
BIOLOGICAL PUMP Vertical gravitational settlings of biogenic debris
CO 2
Bacteria Oxidation
Carbon Deposition
Sources: Chester 2003, Elderfield 2006, Houghton 2007, Lueker et al 2000, Raven and Falkowski 1999.
Carbon Burial
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