ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Export of organic matter produced in the sunlit surface waters into the ocean’s interior removes about one third of the anthropogenically produced carbon dioxide. The amount of organic matter sinking into the deep ocean, however, is not sufficient to support the carbon demand of the heterotrophic food web in the ocean’s interior as revealed by several studies. Consequently, the oceanic carbon budget cannot be closed. Recently, we identified a hitherto unrecognised non-sinking, non-living particulate organic matter (POM) pool in the dark ocean with rather stable concentrations throughout the water column. This particle pool has not yet been considered in the deep-sea carbon budgets. Its…
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