Microbial gardening in the ocean's twilight zone: Detritivorous metazoans benefit from fragmenting, rather than ingesting, sinking detritus

Sinking organic particles transfer ∼10 gigatonnes of carbon into the deep ocean each year, keeping the atmospheric CO(2) concentration significantly lower than would otherwise be the case. The exact size of this effect is strongly influenced by biological activity in the ocean's twilight zone (...

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Autores principales: Mayor, Daniel J, Sanders, Richard, Giering, Sarah L C, Anderson, Thomas R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
Materias:
Insights & Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25220362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201400100

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4278546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25220362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201400100

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