Coral carbon budget

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Lindberg, B. and Mienert, J., 2005. Postglacial carbonate production by cold-water corals on the Norwegian Shelf and their role in the global carbonate budget. Geology, 33(7) 537-540, doi 10.1130/G21577.1. 

This chapter summarizes the most recent compilations of carbonate reservoir size in the ocean and sediments, as well as the particulate and dissolved fluxes (Fig. 9.5) provided by the above mentioned authors. Coral reefs are probably the best documented shallow-water carbonate environment. Carbonate production on reef flats range as high as 10.000 g CaCOj m yr , with a global mean of about 1800 g CaCOj myr . Totally this amounts to 24.5 10 molyr (Table 9.1) from which 14.5-10 mol yr accumulate and 10-10 mol yr are transported to the deep-sea either by particulate or dissolved export. One of the most uncertain numbers in all these budget calculations are the estimates of the global carbonate production in... 

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