Microbial Control of Oceanic Carbon Flux: The Plot Thickens

作者：Farooq I. Azam · 发表于：Science · 年份：1998 · DOI：10.1126/science.280.5364.694 · 被引用次数：1225 · 研究领域：Marine and coastal ecosystems、Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology、Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

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.