The annual cycle of particulate organic carbon export in Franklin Bay (Canadian Arctic): Environmental control and food web implications

As part of the Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study (CASES), we assessed the importance of new production and resuspension in determining the nature and magnitude of the deep (210 m) particulate organic carbon (POC) flux from October 2003 to September 2004 in central Franklin Bay. In spring and summer, phytoplankton production was nutrient‐limited in the stratified surface layer and the initial spring bloom evolved into a subsurface chlorophyll...