Zooplankton fecal pellets, marine snow and sinking phytoplankton blooms

By J. T. Turner. 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Copepod guts as biogeochemical hotspots in the sea: Evidence from microelectrode profiling of Calanus spp (2011, background): “From ingestion to digestion and defecation, particulate matter is transformed physically and biochemically by these consumers, the outcome of which has significant ramifications for energy and material fluxes in the ocean (Cowie and Hedges 1996; Turner 2002).”
Microbial ecology of organic aggregates in aquatic ecosystems (2002, background): “These fecal pellets can stick to other aggregates or directly sink as individual particles to deeper layers in the water column, thus contributing substantially to the formation of sinking aggregates and sinking flux (e.g. Lampitt et al. 1990, Bochdansky & Herndl 1992, Turner 2002).”
The relative importance of microbial and classical food webs in a highly productive coastal upwelling area (2007, background): “…been assumed that carbon production via chainforming diatoms is either efficiently transferred to higher trophic levels through the classical food web (Ryther 1969) or exported from the euphotic zone either as fecal pellets, detritus, or by sedimentation of ‘‘marine snow’’ aggregates (Turner 2002).”
The relative importance of phytoplankton aggregates and zooplankton fecal pellets to carbon export: insights from free-drifting sediment trap deployments in naturally iron-fertilised waters near the Kerguelen Plateau (2014, background): “, 2013) or large organic aggregates (Turner, 2002; Alldredge and Gotschalk, 1989; De La Rocha and Passow, 2007; Jackson, 1990; Burd and Jackson, 2009), to be the dominant vectors of carbon to depth.”
Ecology of Anguilliform Leptocephali: Remarkable Transparent Fish Larvae of the Ocean Surface Layer (2009, background): “Zooplankton fecal pellets (Turner 2002), discarded larvacean houses (Alldredge 1976), and marine snow (Alldredge and Silver 1988) are common components of the water column in the upper few hundred meters of the ocean.”
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Aquatic Environments: Challenges and Threats to Aquatic Organisms (2020, background): “5 mm that are able to fall down the water column), thus causing the micro- and nanoplastics to collect on the seafloor [33, 52, 53].”
Interactions between microplastics and phytoplankton aggregates: Impact on their respective fates (2015, background): “While some large microalgae can sink as free cells, most of the time aggregates are the main vessel for vertical transport of phytoplankton cells and detritus to the ocean floor (Moriceau et al., 2007; Thornton et al., 2002; and Turner, 2002; Kranck and Milligan, 1988).”
Marine pelagic ecosystems: the West Antarctic Peninsula (2007, background): “It is also possible that krill fragment sinking particles (coprohexy; coprophagy), slowing sedimentation velocities and allowing more time for decomposition during transport (Turner 2002).”
Molecular detection of algal prey in copepod guts and fecal pellets (2003, methodology): “1995), shorter digestion time (Irigoien 1998), and food remains are often identifiable in guts and fecal pellets of copepods (Turner 2002).”
Si and C interactions in the world ocean: Importance of ecological processes and implications for the role of diatoms in the biological pump (2006, background): “Given that aggregates constitute a large fraction of the sinking flux [Thornton, 2002; Turner, 2002; Moriceau et al., submitted manuscript, 2006b], how can we account for such a high decoupling between Si and C?”
Copepods as microbial hotspots in the ocean: effects of host feeding activities on attached bacteria (2005, background): “The presence of various types of particles, such as detritus and marine snow, creates locally elevated concentrations of organic substrates, representing favorable microhabitats for bacteria (Alldredge & Silver 1988, Smith et al. 1992, Simon et al. 2002, Turner 2002).”