Biological export of shelf carbon is a sink of the global CO 2 cycle

摘要: Measurements of carbon metabolism, production and exchange along food webs suggest that large fractions the organic matter produced on continental shelves must be exported to slopes. The annual loss from shelf ecosystems is far greater than in open ocean. If part nearshore primary has increased those coastal zones where anthropogenic inorganic nutrient supplies have been consistently increasing since industrial revolution, then burial diagenesis this material slope depocentres could represent ‘missing BMTs carbon’ global CO2 budgets.