biological pump

noun

The collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.

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Meanings

nounbiological pump (plural biological pumps)

plural biological pumps

  1. earth scienceThe collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.

    Thus, changes in the magnitude of the ocean's biological pump may have had a large influence on the f_(CO2) of the atmosphere in the past and could also be important in controlling future f_(CO2).

    2008, Steven R. Emerson, John Hedges, chapter 11, in Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle, →ISBN, page 376
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