• Aggregate feeding by the copepods Calanus and Pseudocalanus controls carbon flux attenuation in the Arctic shelf sea during the productive period 

      van der Jagt, Helga; Wiedmann, Ingrid; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Niehoff, Barbara; Iversen, Morten H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-24)
      Up to 95% of the oceanic primary production is recycled within the upper few hundred meters of the water column. Marine snow and zooplankton fecal pellets in the upper water column are often recycled at rates exceeding those measured for microbial degradation, suggesting that zooplankton might be important for flux attenuation of particulate organic carbon in the upper ocean. However, direct evidence ...
    • Arctic Observations Identify Phytoplankton Community Composition as Driver of Carbon Flux Attenuation 

      Wiedmann, Ingrid; Ceballos-Romero, E.; Villa-Alfageme, M.; Renner, Angelika; Dybwad, Christine; van der Jagt, Helga; Svensen, Camilla; Assmy, Philipp; Wiktor, Josef; Tatarek, Agnieszka; Różańska‐Pluta, M.; Iversen, Morten H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-24)
      The attenuation coefficient <i>b</i> is one of the most common ways to describe how strong the carbon flux is attenuated throughout the water column. Therefore, <i>b</i> is an essential input variable in many carbon flux and climate models. Marsay et al. (2015, <a href=https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1415311112>https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1415311112</a>) proposed that the median surface water temperature ...