Towards quantifying the response of the oceans’ biological pump to climate change

The biological pump makes a major global contribution to the sequestration of carbon-rich particles in the oceans’ interior. This pump has many component parts from physics to ecology that together control its efficiency in exporting particles. Hence, the influence of climate change on the functioni...

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Main Author: Philip Wallace Boyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2015.00077/full