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Implications for the mesopelagic microbial gardening hypothesis as determined by experimental fragmentation of Antarctic krill fecal pellets

1. Detritivores need to upgrade their food to increase its nutritional value. One method is to fragment detritus promoting the colonization of nutrient‐rich microbes, which consumers then ingest along with the detritus; so‐called microbial gardening. Observations and numerical models of the detritus...

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Autores principales: Cavan, Emma L., Kawaguchi, So, Boyd, Philip W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7820144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33520184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7119