points in the annual cycle: the threshold of daylight initiating phytoplankton growth, bacterial activities following the photosynthetic pulse, the succession of protist and zooplankton grazers, and the temporal [...] Meeres (ICBM) Project Description The biological carbon pump (BCP) mediates carbon supply, consumption and storage in the world’s oceans. A mechanistic understanding of the BCP requires continuous observations [...] taxonomic, functional and physicochemical signatures of the BCP over a full annual cycle in the Weddell Sea. This “Last Ice Area” with central importance for the global climate represents a natural laboratory to
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