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The vertical fluxes and molar ratios of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus of suspended particulate matter in the Yellow Sea were studied based on the analysis of suspended particulate matter, sediments and sinking particles obtained by use of moored sediment traps. The POC: PON ratios indicate that most of the particulate organic matter in the Yellow Sea water column comes from marine life rather than the continent. The vertical fluxes of SPM, POC, PON and POP in the Yellow Sea are much higher than those in other seas over the world, and present a typical pattern in shallow epicontinental seas. The estimated residence time of the bioactive elements showed that the speed of the biogeochemical process of materials in the Yellow Sea is much shorter than that in the open ocean as there was high primary productivity in this region.
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Project 49736190 supported by NSFC.
This work was partially supported by the China-Korea cooperative project “Seawater Circulation Dynamics and Material Flux in the Yellow Sea”
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Bao-dong, W., Run, Z. & Ming-de, X. Molar ratios of C, N, P of particulate matter and their vertical fluxes in the Yellow Sea. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 20, 91–96 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02846617
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