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Coupled changes in western South Atlantic carbon sequestration and particle reactive element cycling during millennial-scale Holocene climate variability

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Author(s):
Dias, Bruna B. [1, 2] ; Piotrowski, Alexander M. [3] ; Barbosa, Catia F. [2] ; Venancio, Igor M. [4, 2, 5] ; Chiessi, Cristiano M. [1] ; Albuquerque, Ana Luiza S. [2]
Total Authors: 6
Affiliation:
[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Sch Arts Sci & Humanities, BR-03828000 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed Fluminense, Dept Geoquim, BR-24020141 Niteroi, RJ - Brazil
[3] Univ Cambridge, Dept Earth Sci, Godwin Lab Palaeoclimate Res, Cambridge CB2 3EQ - England
[4] Univ Bremen, MARUM Ctr Marine Environm Sci, Leobener Str, D-28359 Bremen - Germany
[5] Natl Inst Space Res INPE, Ctr Weather Forecasting & Climate Studies CPTEC, BR-12630000 Cachoeira Paulista - Brazil
Total Affiliations: 5
Document type: Journal article
Source: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS; v. 11, n. 1 DEC 21 2021.
Web of Science Citations: 0
Abstract

Continental shelves have the potential to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide via the biological pump, burying it in seafloor sediments. The efficiency of marine carbon sequestration changes rapidly due to variations in biological productivity, organic carbon oxidation, and burial rate. Here we present a high temporal resolution record of marine carbon sequestration changes from a western South Atlantic shelf site sensitive to Brazil Current-driven upwelling. The comparison of biological records to rare earth element (REE) patterns from authigenic oxides shows a strong relationship between higher biological productivity and stronger particle reactive element cycling (i.e. REE cycling) during rapid climate change events. This is the first evidence that authigenic oxides archive past changes in upper ocean REE cycling by the exported organic carbon. In addition, our data suggest that Brazil Current-driven upwelling varies on millennial-scales and in time with continental precipitation anomalies as registered in Brazilian speleothems during the Holocene. This indicates an ocean-atmosphere control on the biological pump, most probably related to South American monsoon system variability. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 20/11452-3 - Carbon storage changes in the mid-depth South Atlantic during the penultimate glacial termination and the Anthropocene
Grantee:Bruna Borba Dias
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
FAPESP's process: 18/15123-4 - Past perspectives on tipping elements of the climate system: the Amazon Rainforest and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (PPTEAM)
Grantee:Cristiano Mazur Chiessi
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Program on Global Climate Change - Young Investigators - Phase 2
FAPESP's process: 19/24349-9 - Assessing the effects of past and future climate change on Amazonian biodiversity (CLAMBIO)
Grantee:Cristiano Mazur Chiessi
Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants