Salps play a key role in pumping carbon to the deep ocean

Salps are zooplankton, meaning that they float around in the oceans, filtering out and eating mostly tiny plant plankton.

Study reveals salps play outsize role in damping global warming

In this global model, salps and other tunicates exported 700 million metric tons of carbon to the deep sea each year, equal to emissions from ...

The Outsized Role of Salps in Carbon Export in the Subarctic ...

Salps account for a high export of particulate organic carbon (POC) from surface waters to the deep sea through the flux of their large, fast- ...

Offsetting carbon emissions with salps - Innovation News Network

Zooplankton play a key role in the pump by eating phytoplankton that incorporate carbon from carbon dioxide into their tissues during ...

Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet | Evolution News

But wait, there's more: the salps, like Salpa aspera, also take the stored carbon down in person. Sea salps take part in the “diel vertical ...

Salp blooms drive strong increases in passive carbon export in the ...

Salps in the Southern Ocean, in particular Salpa thompsoni, are important grazers that produce large, fast-sinking fecal pellets.

The Outsized Role of Salps in Carbon Export in the Subarctic ...

Key Points · High salp abundances combined with unique features of salp ecology and physiology lead to their outsized role in the biological pump.

Much Ado About Salps - The Honors Report

Salps play a much more important biological role than Water Wiggles. Apparently, when there are large phytoplankton blooms, salps asexually ...

Ocean Topic: Biological Carbon Pump

Jelly-like salps seem to play a particularly important role in the rapid export of carbon. They feed on phytoplankton and subsequently ...

Jet-Propelled Tunicates Pump Carbon Through the Oceans - Eos.org

The scientists discovered that the salp blooms significantly affected local biogeochemistry. Salps increased the proportion of net primary ...

2018 - Salp bloom effects on the carbon cycle and marine food web

Salps are jelly-like marine animals, shaped like barrel, that combine swimming with moving by pumping water through a feeding filter. They play a unique ...

Krill and salp faecal pellets contribute equally to the carbon flux at ...

Zooplankton FP have been shown to play a significant role in the biological carbon pump and at times account for >65% of the total POC flux at ...

Ubiquitous filter feeders shape open ocean microbial community ...

Salps do not retain Prochlorococcus and SAR11 during feeding, consume the protistan predators of these small bacteria, maintain low nutrient ...

Unlikely heroes of the deep aid fight against climate change

A recent study revealed that when the numbers of salps explode into blooms they play a big role in the global climate by pumping large amounts of carbon.

Creature Feature: Salp - The Ocean Twilight Zone

Found throughout the world ocean, salps play an essential role in the ocean's biological pump. ... carbon dioxide—salp poop is extremely rich in carbon.

Characterizing salps as predators of marine microbes - Phys.org

Anne Thompson from Portland State University and colleagues explore the role played by salps, pelagic tunicates that feed by pumping seawater ...

The role of Antarctic krill and salps in the carbon cycle at the ... - EPIC

Both species play an important role in biogeochemical cycles by the production of large, carbon-rich and fast sinking faecal pellets, but the extent and ...

Can Salps Save Our Planet? - | Shape of Life

When they're swarming and feeding in the millions, salps play a big role in carbon transport. They consume huge amounts of carbon-containing ...

Small fish can play a big role in coastal carbon cycle | ScienceDaily

Research shows that small forage fish like anchovies can transport carbon into the deep sea through their fecal pellets -- where it ...

(PDF) The Outsized Role of Salps in Carbon Export in the Subarctic ...

Periodic blooms of salps (pelagic tunicates) can result in high export of organic matter, leading to an “outsized” role in the ocean's ...