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Hidden bacteria in marine snow may be dissolving ocean shells — and disrupting carbon storage
Learn how bacteria inside marine snow may dissolve shell minerals and influence how the ocean stores carbon.
High pressure in the deep ocean may squeeze nutrients from sinking “marine snow,” feeding deep-sea microbes and altering how ...
How can bacteria that forage on organic particles survive in vast ocean regions where such particles are extremely sparse? A ...
In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.
Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 9 (September 2021), pp. 3255-3270 (16 pages) Sinking particulate organic matter controls the flux of carbon (C) from the surface ocean to the deep sea.
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