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Article Dans Une Revue Global Biogeochemical Cycles Année : 2020

Organic Carbon Export and Loss Rates in the Red Sea

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The export and fate of organic carbon in the mesopelagic zone are still poorly understood and quantified due to lack of observations. We exploited data from a biogeochemical-Argo float that was deployed in the Red Sea to study how a warm and hypoxic environment can affect the fate of the organic carbon in the ocean's interior. We observed that only 10% of the particulate organic carbon (POC) exported survived at depth due to remineralization processes in the upper mesopelagic zone. We also found that POC exported was rapidly degraded in a first stage and slowly in a second one, which may be dependent on the palatability of the organic matter. We observed that apparent oxygen utilization (AOU)-based loss rates (a proxy of the remineralization of total organic matter) were significantly higher than the POC-based loss rates, likely because changes in AOU are mainly attributed to changes in dissolved organic carbon. Finally, we showed that POC-and AOU-based loss rates could be expressed as a function of temperature and oxygen concentration. These findings advance our understanding of the biological carbon pump and mesopelagic ecosystem.
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hal-03019367 , version 1 (23-11-2020)

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Malika Kheireddine, Giorgio Dall'Olmo, Mustapha Ouhssain, George Krokos, Hervé Claustre, et al.. Organic Carbon Export and Loss Rates in the Red Sea. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2020, 34 (10), pp.e2020GB006650. ⟨10.1029/2020GB006650⟩. ⟨hal-03019367⟩
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