ESTIMATION OF THE VERTICAL CARBON FLUX ASSOCIATED WITH THE RESPIRATION OF MIGRATING COPEPODS CALANUS EUXINUS AND PSEUDOCALANUS ELONGATUS IN THE BLACK SEA
Journal: Journal of Oceanological Research
Year: 2024

Diel vertical migrations of zooplankton make a significant contribution to the functioning of the biological pump by providing active transport of carbon from surface layers to depth. In the Black Sea, quantitative assessments of this process have not been carried out until now. In this work, for the first time, calculated values of the carbon flux associated with the respiration of two mass species of migrating copepods, Calanus euxinus and Pseudocalanus elongatus, were obtained. The study was