FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Regional and global impact of CO2 uptake in the Benguela Upwelling System through preformed nutrients BT AF Siddiqui, Claire Rixen, Tim Lahajnar, Niko Van der Plas, Anja K. Louw, Deon C. Lamont, Tarron Pillay, Keshnee AS 1:1;2:1,2;3:2;4:3;5:4;6:5,6,7;7:5; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:; C1 Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research - ZMT, Fahrenheitstrasse 6, 28359, Bremen, Germany Institute of Geology, Universität Hamburg, Bundesstrasse 55, 20146, Hamburg, Germany National Marine Information and Research Centre, PO Box 912, Swakopmund, 13001, Namibia Debmarine Namibia, 10 Dr Frans Indongo Street, Windhoek, 10005, Namibia Oceans & Coasts Research Branch, Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries, PO Box 52126, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa Marine Research Institute & Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Bayworld Centre for Research & Education, 5 Riesling Road, Constantia, Cape Town, 7806, South Africa C2 LEIBNIZ CTR TROP MARINE RES ZMT, GERMANY UNIV HAMBURG, GERMANY NATMIRC, NAMIBIA DEBMARINE NAMIBIA, NAMIBIA OCEANS & COASTS RESEARCH BRANCH, SOUTH AFRICA UNIV CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA BCRE, SOUTH AFRICA IN DOAJ IF 16.6 TC 1 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95438/103233.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95438/103234.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00842/95438/103235.pdf LA English DT Article CR OISO - OCÉAN INDIEN SERVICE D'OBSERVATION AB Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS) are highly productive ecosystems. However, being poorly sampled and represented in global models, their role as atmospheric CO2 sources and sinks remains elusive. In this work, we present a compilation of shipboard measurements over the past two decades from the Benguela Upwelling System (BUS) in the southeast Atlantic Ocean. Here, the warming effect of upwelled waters increases CO2 partial pressure (pCO2) and outgassing in the entire system, but is exceeded in the south through biologically-mediated CO2 uptake through biologically unused, so-called preformed nutrients supplied from the Southern Ocean. Vice versa, inefficient nutrient utilization leads to preformed nutrient formation, increasing pCO2 and counteracting human-induced CO2 invasion in the Southern Ocean. However, preformed nutrient utilization in the BUS compensates with ~22–75 Tg C year−1 for 20–68% of estimated natural CO2 outgassing in the Southern Ocean’s Atlantic sector (~ 110 Tg C year−1), implying the need to better resolve global change impacts on the BUS to understand the ocean’s role as future sink for anthropogenic CO2. PY 2023 PD MAY SO Nature Communications SN 2041-1723 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 14 IS 1 UT 001001562200012 DI 10.1038/s41467-023-38208-y ID 95438 ER EF