Sentences with phrase «sinking organic particles»
Small, slow - sinking organic particles may play a bigger role than previously thought in the transport of carbon below the surface ocean.
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As these more substantial microbes die, the researchers found they increase the flux of sinking organic carbon particles by as much as 35 percent.
«And, what puzzles researchers working on the biological carbon pump: it is higher than that of non-calcifying phytoplankton and marine snow, the main sinking particles and organic carbon sources to the ocean interior».
(Then from conclusion):» Finally, the increased exudation of dissolved organic carbon might increase aggregation and potential for sinking of particles.»
Sea butterflies feed by suspending themselves in the water column and extruding a web of mucus that passively catches sinking plankton and other organic particles.
The `' smelly» bit is the organic particles, the sinker; to make it to sink in the ground.
It's called:» MOLECULAR ADHESION» After sinking in the ground; those organic particles disintegrate deep in the soil.
Photosynthesis in the sunlit upper ocean produces O2, which escapes to the atmosphere; it also produces particles of organic carbon that sink into deeper waters before they
If by dissolved carbon you mean dissolved organic matter, this is particulate organic matter where the particles are so small that they don't sink.