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Ecosystem composition and export production variability Corinne Le Quéré , Erik Buitenhuis, Christine Klaas Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany and Olivier Aumont Laboratoire de Dynamique du Climat et des Océans, France. climate feedback. OCEAN. CO 2 sink (PgC/y).
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Ecosystem composition and export production variabilityCorinne Le Quéré, Erik Buitenhuis, Christine KlaasMax-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany and Olivier AumontLaboratoire de Dynamique du Climat et des Océans, France
climate feedback OCEAN CO2 sink (PgC/y) LAND 1850 today 2100 Prentice et al., 2001
4 NPZD PISCES Dynamic Green Ocean Model (DGOM)
SeaWiFS Chla (mgChl/m3)
SeaWiFS NPZD PISCES DGOM Chla (mgChl/m3)
Chla (mgChl/m3) Interannual standard deviation of Chla (%) SeaWiFS 50%
Chla (mgChl/m3) Interannual standard deviation of Chla (%) SeaWiFS NPZD PISCES DGOM 50%
diatoms 70N cocco 0 nano 70S relative contribution Abundance of PFT (%) DGOM cocco nano diatoms
Interannual standard deviation of chla per PFT (%) cocco nano diatoms
Interannual standard deviation of chla per PFT (%) cocco nanno diatoms 5 PFTs 4 PFTs
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 0.02 diatoms 0.1 coccolithophorids 1.5 nano phytoplankton Plankton-specific chla in the North Atlantic (40N-45N, mgChla/m3)
diatoms 70N cocco 0 nano 70S relative contribution Abundance of diatoms (%) Uitz, Claustre et al., from an HPLC pigment and SeaWIFS Chla DGOM
diatoms 70N cocco 0 nano 70S relative contribution Coccolithophorid bloom frequency Analysis from C. Brown DGOM
Export Production (PgC/y) MEAN(Standard deviation)
sensitivity of plankton biomass to nano nano grazing growth diatoms diatoms Meso-zoo Meso-zoo Cocco. Cocco. Micro-zoo Micro-zoo
Conclusions • More complexity in marine ecosystems gives more variability in fluxes • More in line with observations • Mean spatial distribution in PFTs is critical to reproduce chl variability
Impact of El Nino in % on Chla (full line from SeaWiFS) and export (dots from traps) POC CaCO3 Si sediment trap data base of C. Klaas
Abundance of PFT (%) DGOM PISCES cocco nanno diatoms