Respiration rate scales inversely with sinking speed of settling marine aggregates

• Kristian Spilling ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: kristian.spilling@environment.fi

  Affiliations Finnish Environment Institute, Marine and Freshwater Solutions, Helsinki, Finland, Centre for Coastal Research, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8390-8270

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• Malte Heinemann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Geosciences, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7571-3991

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• Mari Vanharanta,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Finnish Environment Institute, Marine and Freshwater Solutions, Helsinki, Finland, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Moritz Baumann,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Andrea Noche-Ferreira,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Coastal Research, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Philipp Suessle,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7224-2330

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• Ulf Riebesell

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biological Oceanography, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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