“…A number of studies have reported solubilization/degradation of organic carbon (Gardner et al, 1983;Noji et al, 1999;Honjo et al, 1995), and nitrogen (Hansell and Newton, 1994;Kähler and Bauerfeind, 2001) amino acids (Lee and Cronin, 1984;Lee et al, 1992), fatty acids (Körtzinger et al, 1994), phosphate (Knauer et al, 1984;von Bodungen et al, 1991), dissolved inorganic nitrogen (primarily ammonium, Knauer et al, 1990;von Bodungen et al, 1991), silica (von Bodungen et al, 1991Bauerfeind et al, 1997;Antia et al, 1999), metals (Knauer et al, 1984;Pohl et al, 2004) and particulate barium (Dymond and Collier, 1996). Despite finding that solubilization can account for a substantial proportion of the measured particulate flux, to date there has been no systematic analysis of the corrections that may need to be applied to arrive at values of the entire flux arriving in the trap.…”