Evolving Paradigms in Biological Carbon Cycling in the Ocean

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Nature : Production scientifique
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Statut de publication : Publié
Année de publication : 2018
Auteurs (10) : ZHANG Chuanlun DANG Hongyue AZAM Farooq BENNER R LEGENDRE Louis PASSOW Uta POLIMENE Luca ROBINSON Carol SUTTLE Curtis,a JIAO Nianzhi
Revue scientifique : National Science Review
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DOI : 10.1093/nsr/nwy074
URL : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwy074
Abstract : Carbon is a keystone element in global biogeochemical cycles. It plays a fundamental role in biotic and abiotic processes in the ocean, which intertwine to mediate the chemistry and redox status of carbon in the ocean and the atmosphere. The interactions between abiotic and biogenic carbon (e.g., CO2, CaCO3, organic matter) in the ocean are complex, and there is a half-century-old enigma about the existence of a huge reservoir of recalcitrant dissolved organic carbon (RDOC) that equates to the magnitude of the pool of atmospheric CO2. The concepts of the biological carbon pump (BCP) and the microbial loop (ML) shaped our understanding of the marine carbon cycle. The more recent concept of the microbial carbon pump (MCP), which is closely connected to those of the BCP and the ML, explicitly considers the significance of the ocean's RDOC reservoir and provides a mechanistic framework for the exploration of its formation and persistence. Understanding of the MCP has benefited from advanced “omics”, and novel research in biological oceanography and microbial biogeochemistry. The need to predict the ocean's response to climate change makes an integrative understanding of the BCP, ML and MCP a high priority. In this review, we summarize and discuss progress since the proposal of the MCP in 2010 and formulate research questions for the future.
Mots-clés : biological carbon pump, microbial loop, microbial carbon pump, ocean carbon cycle, global climate change
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Zhang C, Dang H, Azam F, Benner R, Legendre L, Passow U, Polimene L, Robinson C, Suttle CA, Jiao N (2018) Evolving Paradigms in Biological Carbon Cycling in the Ocean. Natl Sci Rev | doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwy074