Particulate Organic Matter Transport to the Deep Sea by Salp Fecal Pellets
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Inter-Research Science Center in Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Vol. 5 (1) , 55-60
- https://doi.org/10.3354/meps005055
Abstract
Free floating sediment traps were suspended at 200 and 900 m in the northern north Pacific Ocean during May 20-21, 1974. A considerable number of large, dark green particles, larger than 1 mm in diameter, was collected at both depths. These large particles corresponded morphologically with fecal pellets of salps. Vertical C flux was estimated to be 10.5 and 6.7 mg C m-2 d-1 at 200 and 900 m, respectively. Vertical transport of salp fecal pellets could play an important role in meeting the energy requirements of bathypelagic organisms in the open ocean.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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