Claustre et al. (2021): The Oceans’ Biological Carbon Pumps – Framework for a Research Observational Community Approach
Hervé Claustre, Louis Legendre, Philip W. Boyd, Marina Levy IN: Front. Mar. Sci. 8: 780052. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.780052
A recent paradigm explains that the downward pumping of biogenic carbon in the ocean is performed by the combined action of six different biological carbon pumps (BCPs): the biological gravitational pump, the physically driven pumps (Mixed Layer Pump, Eddy Subduction Pump and Large-scale Subduction Pump), and the animal-driven pumps (diurnal and seasonal vertical migrations of zooplankton and larger animals). Here, a research community approach is presented to implement the new paradigm through an integrated study of these BCPs in the World Ocean.