Where is mineral ballast important for surface export of particulate organic carbon in the ocean?

Global assessment of ocean carbon export by combining satellite observations and food-web models

(2014) D. A. Siegel et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Major contribution of diatom resting spores to vertical flux in the sub-polar North Atlantic

(2013) T.A. Rynearson et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

An inverse relationship between production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean

(2013) Kanchan Maiti et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current

(2013) P. Assmy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Export of organic carbon and biominerals derived from 234Th and 210Po at the Porcupine Abyssal Plain

(2012) F.A.C. Le Moigne et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

On the proportion of ballast versus non-ballast associated carbon export in the surface ocean

(2012) Frédéric A. C. Le Moigne et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Assessment of the spatial variability in particulate organic matter and mineral sinking fluxes in the ocean interior: Implications for the ballast hypothesis

(2012) J. D. Wilson et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Global patterns in efficiency of particulate organic carbon export and transfer to the deep ocean

(2012) Stephanie A. Henson et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

(2012) Victor Smetacek et al.   NATURE

Export and mesopelagic particle flux during a North Atlantic spring diatom bloom

(2011) Patrick Martin et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

A reduced estimate of the strength of the ocean's biological carbon pump

(2011) Stephanie A. Henson et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The dynamic ocean biological pump: Insights from a global compilation of particulate organic carbon, CaCO3, and opal concentration profiles from the mesopelagic

(2011) Phoebe J. Lam et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Shedding light on processes that control particle export and flux attenuation in the twilight zone of the open ocean

(2011) Ken O. Buesseler et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Importance of biogenic opal as ballast of particulate organic carbon (POC) transport and existence of mineral ballast-associated and residual POC in the Western Pacific Subarctic Gyre

(2010) Makio C. Honda et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Does a ballast effect occur in the surface ocean?

(2010) Richard Sanders et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The association between biogenic and inorganic minerals and the amino acid composition of settling particles

(2010) I. Salter et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Origin of iron and aluminium in large particles (>53 µm) in the Crozet region, Southern Ocean

(2009) Hélène Planquette et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

The impact of remineralization depth on the air–sea carbon balance

(2009) Eun Young Kwon et al.   Nature Geoscience

Investigating the effect of ballasting by CaCO3 in Emiliania huxleyi: I. Formation, settling velocities and physical properties of aggregates

(2008) Anja Engel et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Investigating the effect of ballasting by CaCO3 in Emiliania huxleyi, II: Decomposition of particulate organic matter

(2008) Anja Engel et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY