Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2022)

Temperature is a better predictor of stable carbon isotopic compositions in marine particulates than dissolved CO2 concentration

  • Qianqian Liu,
  • Selvaraj Kandasamy,
  • Weidong Zhai,
  • Huawei Wang,
  • Yoganandan Veeran,
  • Aiguo Gao,
  • Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00627-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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The stable carbon isotopic composition of particulate matter in mixed phytoplankton assemblages in a marginal sea is more strongly correlated with temperature than CO2 concentration, according to observations from the deep chlorophyll maxima in the southern Yellow Sea