Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.1038/s41598-022-26593-1

Publication Title

Scientific Reports

Volume

12

Issue

1

Pages

22258 (1-12)

Abstract

Fully and accurately reconstructing changes in oceanic productivity and carbon export and their controls is critical to determining the efficiency of the biological pump and its role in the global carbon cycle through time, particularly in modern CO2 source regions like the eastern equatorial Pacific (EEP). Here we present new high-resolution records of sedimentary 230Th-normalized opal and nannofossil carbonate fluxes and [231Pa/230Th]xs ratios from site MV1014-02-17JC in the Panama Basin. We find that, across the last deglaciation, phytoplankton community structure is driven by changing patterns of nutrient (nitrate, iron, and silica) availability which, in turn, are caused by variability in the position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and associated changes in biogeochemical cycling and circulation in the Southern Ocean. Our multi-proxy work suggests greater scrutiny is required in the interpretation of common geochemical proxies of productivity and carbon export in the EEP.

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Data Availability

Article states: "Radiocarbon, [231Pa/230Th]xs, opal flux, and carbonate flux data will be archived at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) database upon publication and are also available as a supplement to this manuscript."

"The online version contains supplementary material available at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26593-1."

Original Publication Citation

Schimmenti, D., Marcantonio, F., Hayes, C.T., Hertzberg, J., Schmidt, M., & Sarao, J. (2022) Insights into the deglacoal variability of phytoplankton community structure in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean using [231Pa/230Th]xs and opal-carbonate fluxes. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-12, Article 22258. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26593-1

ORCID

0000-0001-6362-7845 (Schmidt)

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