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Recent evidence1–5 has suggested that diurnal and annual periodicities affect the deep sea which traditionally had been thought to be the least variable environment at the surface of the Earth6,7. We report here what we believe to be the first direct measurements of seasonal change in the total flux of particles <13 cm and in the flux of organic carbon associated with those particles. The change seems to be related to seasonal change in the primary productivity of the surface water.
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Deuser, W., Ross, E. Seasonal change in the flux of organic carbon to the deep Sargasso Sea. Nature 283, 364–365 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/283364a0
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