Macroalgal fucoidan can activate the biological carbon pump
Inga Hellige, Hagen Buck‐Wiese, Margot Bligh, Timothy Thomson, Lydia White, Carol Arnosti, Dariya Baiko, Linda Biehler, Mar Fernández‐Méndez, Sherif Ghobrial, Bowei Gu, Camilla Gustafsson, Mohammed Kajee, C. Chad Lloyd, Nguyen P. Nguyen, , Jan‐Hendrik Hehemann
The paper quantifies fucoidan release by brown macroalgae and estimates its global contribution to marine carbon sequestration through the formation of marine snow.
bioRxiv · Jul 13, 2026 · PreprintEcology