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Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean

Jiao, Nianzhi, Herndl, Gerhard J., Hansell, Dennis A., Benner, Ronald, Kattner, Gerhard, Wilhelm, Steven W., Kirchman, David L., Weinbauer, Markus G. +3 more·2010·Nature Reviews Microbiology

Abstract

The biological pump is a process whereby CO(2) in the upper ocean is fixed by primary producers and transported to the deep ocean as sinking biogenic particles or as dissolved organic matter. The fate of most of this exported material is remineralization to CO(2), which accumulates in deep waters until it is eventually ventilated again at the sea surface. However, a proportion of the fixed carbon is not mineralized but is instead stored for millennia as recalcitrant dissolved organic matter. The processes and mechanisms involved in the generation of this large carbon reservoir are poorly understood. Here, we propose the microbial carbon pump as a conceptual framework to address this important, multifaceted biogeochemical problem.

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  • The fate of most exported material from the biological C pump is remineralization to CO2.

    “However, the fate of most of this exported material is remineralization to CO2.197”

    From Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality (2021) · cites this paper as [197]

  • Jiao et al. proposed that microorganisms play a vital role in sequestering C as recalcitrant dissolved organic C, described as a microbial C pump.

    “Jiao et al.197 proposed that microorganisms play a vital role in this process and described it as a microbial C pump.”

    From Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality (2021) · cites this paper as [197]

  • Unless marine carbon storage could be effected in a recalcitrant form that sinks rapidly, CO2 should probably best be sequestered elsewhere if we are to have ecosystems in which the net ecosystem carbon budget is accumulative.

    “Unless marine carbon storage could be effected in a recalcitrant form that sinks rapidly (Jiao et al., 2010;Stone, 2010;Jiao and Azam, 2011), this implies that CO 2 should probably best be sequestered elsewhere if we are to have ecosystems in which the net ecosystem carbon budget (Chapin et al., 2006;Smith et al., 2010b) is accumulative.”

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  1. Karl, D. et al. Biological pump working group summary. OCTET [online] , (2001).
  2. Nagata, T. & Kirchman, D. L. in Microbial Biosystems: New Frontiers. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (eds Bell, C. R., Brylinsky, M. & Johnson-Green, P.) 153–158 (Atlantic Canada Society for Microbial Ecology, Halifax, Canada, 1999).

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Jiao, N., Herndl, G. J., Hansell, D. A., Benner, R., Kattner, G., Wilhelm, S. W., Kirchman, D. L., Weinbauer, M. G., Luo, T., Chen, F., & Azam, F.
Affiliations
  • Xiamen University (CN)
  • University of Vienna (AT)
  • University of Miami (US)
  • University of South Carolina (US)
  • Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (DE)
  • University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
  • University of Delaware (US)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US)
Corresponding author
Jiao, Nianzhi
Venue
Nature Reviews Microbiology
Published
2010-07-05
Volume
8
Issue
8
Pages
593-599
ISSN
  • 1740-1526 (ISSN-L)
  • 1740-1534
OpenAlex
W2081163858
Cited by
1,780
References
85
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.23
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Reviews Microbiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Keywords
microbial carbon pump, ocean carbon storage, biological carbon pump, remineralization, marine microorganisms, long-term carbon sequestration, ocean biogeochemistry
MeSH terms
Animals, Archaea, Bacteria, Carbon Dioxide, Oceans and Seas, Organic Chemicals, Phytoplankton, Seawater, Viruses, Zooplankton

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