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In this chapter we summarize the data on organic carbon (OC) sources from Chapters 2 and 3 and the data on OC burial rates from Chapters 7.2 to 7.9 to produce best estimates for total sediment and organic carbon budgets for the Arctic Ocean. To construct the organic carbon budget we have limited ourselves to particulate organic carbon (POC) and have not included the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in our estimates. DOC certainly is an important OC source (see Chapter 4), however, we presently do not know how conservative it is having no confident estimate of which proportion becomes trapped over the shelves or metabolized during transport (see below). Based on the results presented in Chapter 4, less than 5% is buried in coastal sediments.
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Stein, R., Macdonald, R.W. (2004). Organic Carbon Budget: Arctic Ocean vs. Global Ocean. In: Stein, R., MacDonald, R.W. (eds) The Organic Carbon Cycle in the Arctic Ocean. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18912-8_8
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