Biogeochemical loops
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015In the early 1980s, advances in analyses of microbial function in ocean water allowed researchers to observe that smaller microbial producers--distinct from well studied photosynthetic dinoflagellates and diatoms--were leaking a substantial amount of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) into the water column. This DOC was then taken up by heterotrophic microbes, ...
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