The biological pump is responsible for transforming dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) into organic biomass and pumping it in particulate or dissolved form into the deep ocean.

The biological pump is the set of processes by which inorganic carbon (e.g., carbon dioxide) is fixed into organic matter via photosynthesis and then sequestered away from the atmosphere …

The biological carbon pump refers to a series of biological processes that sequester carbon to the ocean floor, away from the Earth's atmosphere. The biological carbon pump has a greater …

Marine organisms play a critical role in the global carbon cycle via the biological carbon pump. In the well-lit surface ocean, primary producers use sunlight for energy and dissolved inorganic …

2020年9月10日 · What is the biological carbon pump? When sunlight hits the ocean’s surface waters, it stimulates tiny marine plants called phytoplankton to photosynthesize. This process …

2020年4月6日 · When phytoplankton die or are eaten by zooplankton, the carbon-rich fragments sinks deeper into the ocean, where it is, in turn, eaten by other creatures or buried in …

2023年12月27日 · The oceanic biological carbon pump (BCP) is a complex mechanism regulating the Earth carbon (C) cycle by sequestrating part of the photosynthetically fixed CO 2 into the …

This module is an introduction to the marine biological pump and uses representative organisms to demonstrate the interconnectivity between the biosphere and the global carbon cycle. …

The oceanic biological pump—the complex suite of processes that results in the transfer of particulate and dissolved organic carbon from the surface to the deep ocean—constitutes the …

2024年4月6日 · The biological pump, orchestrated by minute phytoplankton, removes CO 2 from the atmosphere, depositing it in ocean sediments for centuries. This vital process mitigates …