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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BlackWell Publishing Ltd
2014
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| 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 |