Respiration benthic

Janssen, F., Huettel, M., and Witte, U. (2005b). Pore-water advection and solute fluxes in permeable marine sediments(II) Benthic respiration at three sandy sites with different permeabditiies (German Bight, North Sea. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50, 779—792. 

Because particulate carbon export from surface waters is seasonal, and it is known that the majority of the particle flux is by large rapidly falling particles, one might expect that the benthic flux would also vary seasonally. This was shown to be true in the North Pacifle by a series of benthic respiration deployments (Smith and Baldwin, 1984), but not in the North Atlantic near Bermuda (Sayles et ai, 1994). The reason for these differences is not presently understood. 

Thamdrup B. and Canfield D. E. (2000) Benthic respiration in aquatic sediments. In Methods in Ecosystem Science (eds. O. 

Fig. 6.14 Correlation of (a) total oxygen fluxes and (b) total-diffusive oxygen fluxes with the dry weight of organic macrofauna indicating the effect of macrobenthic activity for benthic respiration processes (adapted from Glud et al. 1994). Broken lines are fitted by eye.

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