The giant diatom dump

Victor Smetacek ()
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Victor Smetacek: the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Nature, 2000, vol. 406, issue 6796, 574-575

Abstract: Oceanic diatoms come in all shapes and sizes. It now appears that the larger species may be more serious players in ocean biogeochemistry than previously thought: in a process dubbed the 'fall dump', they can make a bigger contribution to ocean sediments than their more abundant, smaller-celled relatives.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1038/35020665

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