Zooplankton and the Ocean Carbon Cycle.

By D. Steinberg, M. Landry. Annual Review of Marine Science, 2017

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Temperature dependency of metabolic rates in the upper ocean: A positive feedback to global climate change? (2018, background): “In eutrophic regions – dominated by microphytoplankton such diatoms – zooplankton degradation contributes significantly to the rapid reduction in particle flux in mesopelagic waters (Herndl and Reinthaler, 2013; Steinberg and Landry, 2017).”
Quantifying carbon fluxes from primary production to mesopelagic fish using a simple food web model (2019, background): “Steinberg and Landry (2017) constructed a C budget of the global ocean ecosystem and estimated that 66% of PP is consumed by microzooplankton, with a further 10% of PP accounting for consumption of bacterial secondary production, giving a total intake by microzooplankton of 76% of PP.”