DescriptionMain sources of ocean dissolved organic carbon.jpg
English: Main sources of ocean dissolved organic carbon
Simplified view of the main sources (black text; underlined are the allochthonous sources) and sinks (yellow text) of the oceanic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool. Most commonly referred sources of DOC are: atmospheric (e.g., rain and dust), terrestrial (e.g., rivers), primary producers (e.g., microalgae, cyanobacteria, macrophytes), groundwater, food chain processes (e.g., zooplankton grazing), and benthic fluxes (exchange of DOC across the sediment-water interface but also from hydrothermal vents). The four main processes removing DOC from the water column are: photodegradation (most notably UV-radiation; it should be noted that sometimes photodegradation “transforms” rather than “removes” DOC, ending up in higher molecular weight complex molecules), microbial (mainly by prokaryotes), aggregation (primarily when river and seawater mixes) and thermal degradation (in e.g., hydrothermal systems).
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