Session5: The biodiversity and biological carbon pump of the Pacific-Asian marginal seas: Natural variability and anthropogenic disturbance

Conveners: Jianfang Chen, Jun Sun, Sang Heon Lee

Session description:
The Western Pacific marginal seas (WPMS) represent 75% of the world's marginal basins, and are hotspots of biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles with significant climate effect. The highly complex processes of the biological carbon pump, driven by climate change, multiscale physical forcing, and human activities, have long been recognized. With the development of in-situ monitoring, remote sensing and high-resolution numerical models, prominent spatiotemporal variations have been found in ocean biogeochemistry, biodiversity, primary productivity and subsequent sinking particle flux in the WPMS. A systematic understanding of the underlying mechanisms will help us further understand the role of the WPMS in the global carbon cycle and biodiversity. In this session, we welcome contributions from any discipline that are related to biodiversity and biological carbon pump, which includes but is not limited to observations, models, theories, and paleo proxies.