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Microplastics disrupt Antarctic krill faecal carbon export_updated
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This entry is the code and raw dataset accompanying a scientific paper on how microplastics affect Antarctic krill's ability to produce dense, sinking fecal pellets that carry carbon to the deep ocean. The underlying research found that microplastic ingestion causes krill to produce smaller, more fragile pellets that sink more slowly, potentially reducing the Southern Ocean's biological carbon pump. It is the data repository record rather than the published paper itself.
This is the scripts and raw dataset for the manuscript "Microplastic-induced fragmentation reduces krill faecal-pellet carbon export in the Southern Ocean: Evidence from mechanistic modelling". Using the jupyter notebook and the csv document under the same file could repeat the simulations in the paper.
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