Extended Data Fig. 4: Influence of trends in the profiles for MR and cumulative POC fluxes on the profile shape of the derived metric Cremin.
From: Decoding drivers of carbon flux attenuation in the oceanic biological pump
Cumulative POC flux (in brown) follows a power-law decrease, while the microbially-mediated contribution to POC flux attenuation (MR) (in blue) is either constant (panel a) or decreases (panel b) with depth, but at a lower rate than the cumulative flux (Fig. 2). The resulting C-specific remineralisation rate (Cremin; in purple), derived from these two components of the POC flux, increases with depth in both scenarios.
