Defecation by Salpa thompsoni and its contribution to vertical flux in the Southern Ocean

By Brennan T. Phillips, P. Kremer, L. Madin. 2009

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. V. Siegel
2. A. Atkinson
3. P. Ward
4. R. Ross
5. L. Quetin
6. Geraint A. Tarling
7. K. Schmidt
8. S. Hill

In Oceanography

1. A. Atkinson
2. D. Steinberg
3. M. Landry
4. V. Siegel
5. Miram R. Gleiber
6. P. Ward
7. Geraint A. Tarling
8. S. Hill

Citations in the corpus

• Jelly biomass sinking speed reveals a fast carbon export mechanism (2013, background): “900 m d21; Bruland and Silver 1981; Madin 1982; Phillips et al. 2009).”
• KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016 (2016, background): “Both taxa are important in biogeochemical cycling and nutrient export (Pakhomov et al., 2002; Phillips et al., 2009; Gleiber et al., 2012; Schmidt et al., 2016) They have broadly similar size, but have fundamentally different life cycles, habitat preferences, and nutritional composition and thus…”
• An overview of Southern Ocean zooplankton data: abundance, biomass, feeding and functional relationships (2012, background): “The sinking rates of the salp faecal pellets (Pakhomov et al., 2006; Phillips et al., 2009) are generally faster than those of E.”
• Zooplankton and the Ocean Carbon Cycle. (2017, background): “2001) to more than 1,000 m d−1 for salps (Phillips et al. 2009).”
• Time series of vertical flux of zooplankton fecal pellets on the continental shelf of the western Antarctic Peninsula (2012, background): “But, with salp pellets containing thousands of times more carbon than krill and sinking at rapid rates to the deep-sea (Turner, 2002; Phillips et al., 2009) it is likely this shift in the zooplankton due to climate change will result in a significant change in the carbon export system.”
• Carbon fluxes and pelagic ecosystem dynamics near two western Antarctic Peninsula Adélie penguin colonies: an inverse model approach (2013, background): “…1988, Siegel 1992 for abundance to wet weight conversion, Pakhomov et al. 2002 for wet weight to dry and carbon weight conversions; salps: Huntley et al. 1989, Phillips et al. 2009 for abundance to wet weight conversion, and Pakhomov et al. 2002 for wet weight to dry and carbon weight conversions).”