Figure 5
Comparison of trench axis and adjacent abyssal plain of Atacama, Japan, Kuril-Kamchatka and Tonga trenches. * this study. ** data compiled from Schimdt & Arbizu15, Schmidt et al.40, and Itoh et al.32 comprising: 8 abyssal plain and 7 trench axis sites. *** data compiled from Leduc et al.14 comprising: 1 abyssal plain and trench axis site each. All data compiled in this figure is up to 5 cm sediment depth and abyssal plain sites are on the oceanic plate. Net primary production (NPP) values was derived using Behrenfeld & Falkovski41 model and remote sensing data from the period 2009–2018 and previous presented in: #—Glud et al.26; §—Oguri et al. (in prep).
