Spatiotemporal Variability of Zooplankton Fecal Pellet Carbon Flux in the Southern Ocean: Insights from a Circumpolar Meta-analysis
Mei Xue, College of Marine Living Resource Science and Management, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China; Center for Polar Research, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China, Guoping Zhu, College of Marine Living Resource Science and Management, Shanghai Ocean University; Center for Polar Research, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China; National Engineering Research Center for Oceanic Fisheries; Polar Marine Ecosystem Group, The Key Laboratory of Sustainable Exploitation of Oceanic Fisheries Resources, Shanghai Ocean University, Ministry of Education; International Research Center for Ma, Shanghai, China, Bettina Meyer, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg; Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, Oldenburg, Germany and Abigail J.R. Smith, Australian Antarctic Division, Kingston, Australia; Australian Antarctic Program Partnership, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia