Microbial Control of Oceanic Carbon Flux: The Plot Thickens
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 280 (5364), 694-696
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.280.5364.694
Abstract
In his commentary Azam summarizes new work indicating that microbes in the ocean lead much different lives than we had supposed. They ingest both dissolved and particulate carbon and colonize particles of marine snow and other detritus. They can have enormous influence on the overall carbon flux in the ocean9s ecosystem.Keywords
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