Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Adaptive carbon export response to warming in the Sargasso Sea

  • Michael W. Lomas,
  • Nicholas R. Bates,
  • Rodney J. Johnson,
  • Deborah K. Steinberg,
  • Tatsuro Tanioka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28842-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The ability of the ocean’s biota to sequester carbon is thought to be negatively affected by climate change. Here the authors use time-series data in the Sargasso Sea to show that biotic processes can buffer against these negative impacts.