The biological pumping of carbon in the ocean and its effects on ocean carbon sequestration are being studied by researchers from several disciplines. These studies address the biological carbon pump (also called organic, soft-tissue, or biogeochemical carbon pump), the carbonate pump (or counter-pump) and the microbial carbon pump, which are most often treated separately. In the present study, the three pumps are treated together for the first time, under the generic name of “biologically-driven ocean carbon pumps”, in short, “bio-pumps”. The interactions among the carbon fluxes of three interwoven bio-pumps are summarized in the bio-pump jigsaw puzzle.

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生物驱动海洋碳泵交织的拼图


来自多个学科的研究人员正在研究海洋中碳的生物抽水及其对海洋碳封存的影响。这些研究涉及生物碳泵（也称为有机碳泵、软组织碳泵或生物地球化学碳泵）、碳酸盐泵（或反泵）和微生物碳泵，它们通常单独处理。在本研究中，这三种泵首次以“生物驱动的海洋碳泵”的通用名称进行一起处理，简称“生物泵”。生物泵拼图总结了三个交织的生物泵的碳通量之间的相互作用。