Deglacial Si remobilisation from the deep-ocean reveals biogeochemical and physical controls on glacial atmospheric CO2 levels
Deglacial Si remobilisation from the deep-ocean reveals biogeochemical and physical controls on glacial atmospheric CO2 levels
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深海冰下硅的再活化揭示了冰川大气二氧化碳水平的生物地球化学和物理控制
DOI:
10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116332
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发表时间:
2020
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Pichevin L
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Pichevin L
During the last glacial period, the sluggish deep Ocean circulation sequestered carbon into the abyss leading to the lowering of atmospheric CO 2. The impact of this redistribution on biologically essential nutrients remains poorly constrained. Using sedimentary δ 30 Si of diatoms and biogenic accumulation rates in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific (EEP), we present evidences for the remobilisation of dissolved Silica (DSi) along with carbon from the deep ocean during the Last Deglaciation. Because DSi is essential for diatoms growing in the surface ocean, its concentration in the abyss during the glacial periods amounts to a negative feedback on the oceanic CO 2 uptake. However, this effect can be muted by the increased Fe inputs during glacial periods which reduces diatom Si requirements in Fe limited regions such as the EEP. Our results from the EEP suggest that the efficiency of the biological CO 2 pump and the size of the local CO 2 source is tightly controlled by changes in DSi utilisation driven by Fe availability across the last glacial-interglacial transition. We use a modified PANDORA box model to illustrate that the inventory of DSi in the global ocean surface is controlled by Fe availability in HNLC areas rather than by straightforward Si supply though upwelling. The Holocene is characterised by a fast mode of Si cycling driven by high biological requirement for Si under conditions of iron limitation and efficient overturning, promoting CO 2 outgassing and an inefficient biological C pump via the rapid exhaustion of DSi in the surface. The last glacial period saw slower marine Si cycling as a result of decreased DSi biological requirement under Fe-replete conditions in the sea surface and increased Si and CO 2 sequestration in the abyssal ocean. The switch between the two modes of Si cycling happened at 15 ka BP, ie mid-deglaciation, and resulted in contrasting biological carbon drawdown responses in the EEP and globally between both phases of the deglacial CO 2 rise. This illustrates that in addition to deep-sea CO 2 storage and overturning, the efficiency of the biological pump also plays a crucial role in determining ocean-atmosphere CO 2 exchange and shows the dual controls of ocean circulation and Fe-Si availability in this process.
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