biological pump

English

Noun

biological pump (plural biological pumps)

  1. (earth science) The collection of biological ocean processes that regulate the uptake, storage, and release of carbon.
    • 2008, Steven R. Emerson, John Hedges, chapter 11, in Chemical Oceanography and the Marine Carbon Cycle, →ISBN, page 376:
      Thus, changes in the magnitude of the ocean's biological pump may have had a large influence on the fCO2 of the atmosphere in the past and could also be important in controlling future fCO2.
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