PYTOPLANKTON and ZOOPLANKTON are BIOLOGICAL PUMPS OF THE OCEAN

AMAGEST : NEW STUDY FINDS HOW OCEANS ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE

Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, analyzed data of ocean life and observed how the organic matters are used in producing carbon dioxide inside water.
Director of the Earth Research Institute at University of California, Oceanographer David Siegel, and his colleagues analyzed the role of excrement from phytoplankton and zooplankton.

Pytoplankton and zooplankton are tiny little animals placed at the bottom of the food chain.

The new study is published in the Global Biogeochemical Cycles journal titled as “Global assessment of ocean carbon export by combining satellite observations and food-web models.”

Researchers say the biological pump of the ocean export organic carbon into the deep ocean from the upper part through sinking particulate matter and mostly from the zooplankton feces and aggregates of algae.