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ArticleEstuaries and coasts : journal of the Estuarine Research Federation2025

The Role of Zooplankton Community Composition in Fecal Pellet Carbon Production in the York River Estuary, Chesapeake Bay.

Kristen N Sharpe, Deborah K Steinberg, Karen Stamieszkin

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Article in Estuaries and coasts : journal of the Estuarine Research Federation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kristen N SharpeVirginia Institute of Marine Science, 1375 Greate Rd., Gloucester Point, VA 23062 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6573-9031
Deborah K SteinbergVirginia Institute of Marine Science, 1375 Greate Rd., Gloucester Point, VA 23062 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9884-4655
Karen StamieszkinBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 60 Bigelow Dr., East Boothbay, ME 04544 USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6336-8740

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zooplankton play a key role in the cycling of carbon in aquatic ecosystems, yet their production of carbon-rich fecal pellets, which sink to depth and can fuel benthic community metabolism, is rarely quantified in estuaries. We measured fecal pellet carbon (FPC) production by the whole near-surface mesozooplankton community in the York River sub-estuary of Chesapeake Bay. Zooplankton biomass and taxonomic composition were measured with monthly paired day/night net tows. Live animal experiments were used to quantify FPC production rates of the whole community and dominant individual taxa. Zooplankton biomass increased in surface waters at night (2- to 29-fold) due to diel vertical migration, especially by Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12237-024-01442-8.

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AcartiaBiological pumpCopepodDiel vertical migrationParticle export

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PMID39554487
PMCPMC11561122

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