Publication Date:
2019
Description:
〈b〉Controls on zooplankton methane production in the central Baltic Sea〈/b〉〈br〉
Beate Stawiarski, Stefan Otto, Volker Thiel, Ulf Gräwe, Natalie Loick-Wilde, Anna K. Wittenborn, Stefan Schloemer, Janine Wäge, Gregor Rehder, Matthias Labrenz, Norbert Wasmund, and Oliver Schmale〈br〉
Biogeosciences, 16, 1-16, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1-2019, 2019〈br〉
The understanding of surface water methane production in the world oceans is still poor. By combining field studies and incubation experiments, our investigations suggest that zooplankton contributes to subthermocline methane enrichments in the central Baltic Sea by methane production within the digestive tract of copepods and/or by methane production through release of methane precursor substances into the surrounding water, followed by microbial degradation to methane.
Print ISSN:
1810-6277
Electronic ISSN:
1810-6285
Topics:
Biology
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Geosciences
