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Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone

碳循环 环境科学 碳纤维 海洋学 生物群 固碳 碳呼吸 总有机碳 浮游动物 二氧化碳 水柱 深海 生物泵 大气碳循环 生态学 环境化学 生态系统 地质学 化学 负二氧化碳排放 生物 材料科学 复合数 复合材料
作者
Sarah L. C. Giering,Richard Sanders,Richard S. Lampitt,Thomas Anderson,Christian Tamburini,Mehdi Boutrif,Mikhail V. Zubkov,Chris M. Marsay,Stephanie A. Henson,Kevin Saw,Kerry H. Cook,Daniel J. Mayor
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期刊:Nature [Nature Portfolio]
卷期号:507 (7493): 480-483 被引量:248
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DOI:10.1038/nature13123
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The discrepancy between the components of the oceanic carbon budget — export of carbon from the surface and its conversion into carbon dioxide by water-column biota at depth — is reconciled using field data and a steady-state model which indicates that synergy between microbes and zooplankton is an important factor. Biological processes in the ocean's twilight zone — the barely-lit waters at depths of about 50–1,000 metres) — influence the export of carbon from surface waters to the deep ocean. It is not clear to what extent the surface carbon supply meets the energy needs of the marine biota that convert the sinking carbon into carbon dioxide, as estimates of the amount of available carbon are much lower than corresponding estimates of metabolism. Here Sarah Giering et al. present a balanced carbon budget (to within observational uncertainties) for the twilight zone in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. They suggest that a synergy between zooplankton and microbes has an important role in processing organic carbon, and show that the amount of available organic carbon meets the respiration needs of these organisms. Photosynthesis in the surface ocean produces approximately 100 gigatonnes of organic carbon per year, of which 5 to 15 per cent is exported to the deep ocean1,2. The rate at which the sinking carbon is converted into carbon dioxide by heterotrophic organisms at depth is important in controlling oceanic carbon storage3. It remains uncertain, however, to what extent surface ocean carbon supply meets the demand of water-column biota; the discrepancy between known carbon sources and sinks is as much as two orders of magnitude4,5,6,7,8. Here we present field measurements, respiration rate estimates and a steady-state model that allow us to balance carbon sources and sinks to within observational uncertainties at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain site in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean. We find that prokaryotes are responsible for 70 to 92 per cent of the estimated remineralization in the twilight zone (depths of 50 to 1,000 metres) despite the fact that much of the organic carbon is exported in the form of large, fast-sinking particles accessible to larger zooplankton. We suggest that this occurs because zooplankton fragment and ingest half of the fast-sinking particles, of which more than 30 per cent may be released as suspended and slowly sinking matter, stimulating the deep-ocean microbial loop. The synergy between microbes and zooplankton in the twilight zone is important to our understanding of the processes controlling the oceanic carbon sink.
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