Particulate Matter Flux Interception in Oceanic Mesoscale Eddies by the Polychaete Poeobius sp.

Svenja Christiansen1, Henk-Jan T Hoving2, Florian Schütte3, Helena Hauss2, Johannes Karstensen1, Arne Koertzinger1, Lars Stemmann4, Simon-Martin Schröder5, Bernd Christiansen6, Marc Picheral7, Peter Brandt8, Bruce H Robison9, Reinhard Koch5 and Rainer Kiko2, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz-Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Chemical Oceanography, Kiel, Germany, (4)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI - LOV, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (5)University Kiel, Department of Computer Sciences, Germany, (6)University Hamburg, Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science, Hamburg, Germany, (7)Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Villefranche Sur Mer Cedex, France, (8)GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany, (9)MBARI, Moss Landing, CA, United States