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Estimations of primary production and export production in the South China Sea based on sediment trap experiments

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The results of time series sediment trap experiments in the South China Sea show that particulate organic carbon (POC) fluxes are influenced by the monsoons. The increase of productivity in the northern South China Sea is mainly due to northeast monsoon while in the central South China Sea the influence of southwest monsoon becomes more prominent. The annual primary production and export production calculated based on POC fluxes are 53.0–63.4 and 10.32–12.93 gC m-2a-1, respectively. The enhancement of POC flux during monsoon period suggest that higher palaeoproductivity or organic carbon accumulation rate in glacial age in the South Chma Sea might be the result of strengthening of the monsoons.

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  1. Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA, 310012, Hangzhou, China

    Jianfang Chen, Lianfu Zheng, Ronghua Chen & Yulong Zheng

  2. Institute of Biogeochemistry and Marine Chemistry, University of Hamburg, D-20146, Hamburg, Germany

    M. G. Wiesner & H. K. Wong

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Chen, J., Zheng, L., Wiesner, M.G. et al. Estimations of primary production and export production in the South China Sea based on sediment trap experiments. Chin. Sci. Bull. 43, 583–586 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02883645

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