fate of carbon from the pelagic zone to the bottom of the ocean
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1. air and sea exchange CO2
2. Phytoplankton take up CO2 to grow
3. Zooplankton eat phytoplankton and respire CO2
4. Fragments of decaying phytoplankton and fecal pellets from zooplankton both contain carbon
5. separately or in aggregations (called "marine snow"), these carbpon-containing particles sink
6. Only 5 to 50% of the total carbon from blooms reaches 100m about 2 to 25% sinks between 100 and 500m
7. Microbes decompose particles further, zooplankton eat some of this material
8. CO2 from organic matter respiration recirculates back to surface waters
9. zooplankton migrate up at night to feed and back to the depths during the day
10. perhaps only 1 to 15% of the original carbon in surface water sinks below 500m
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