水深:water depth, カイアシ類:Copepods, 摂餌:feeding, 排泄:excretion, 沈降粒子:sedimentation particles, 分解:decomposition, 消費:consumption,カイアシ類の摂餌:feeding of copepods
Sedimented particles that have fallen into the 0-4000 m water depth pass through three paths in each of the eight water depths.One is direct settling (downward arrow),
Second, consume by copepods (left arrow),
The third is microbial degradation consumption (right arrow).
A mean of 32% of the precipitated particles were found to be consumed by copepods in water depths of 0-4000 m.
