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Jelly-falls are marine carbon cycling events whereby gelatinous zooplankton sink to the seafloor and enhance carbon and nitrogen fluxes via rapidly sinking particulate organic matter.[1] These events provide nutrition to benthic megafauna and bacteria.[2][3] Jelly-falls have been implicated as a major “gelatinous pathway” for the sequestration of labile biogenic carbon through the biological pump. [4]

References

  1. ^ "Jelly-falls historic and recent observations: a review to drive future research directions". Hydrobiologia. 690.1 (2012): 227-245.
  2. ^ "Mass deposition event of Pyrosoma atlanticum carcasses off Ivory Coast (West Africa)". Limnology and Oceanography. 54.4 (2009): 1197-1209.
  3. ^ "First observations of jelly-falls at the seafloor in a deep-sea fjord". Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 58.12 (2011): 1206-1211.
  4. ^ Burd, Adrian. "Towards a transformative understanding of the ocean's biological pump: Priorities for future research-Report on the NSF Biology of the Biological Pump Workshop" (PDF). OCB: Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry. Retrieved 30 October 2016.