A seasonal copepod ‘lipid pump’ promotes carbon sequestration in the deep North Atlantic
Sigrun H. Jonasdottir, Andre W. Visser, Katherine Richardson, Michael R. Heath
The paper identifies a seasonal lipid pump mechanism in copepods that sequesters carbon in the deep North Atlantic, comparable to the biological pump's detrital flux.
bioRxiv · Jun 19, 2015Ecology