In:
Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Vol. 344, No. 6186 ( 2014-05-23), p. 889-891
Abstract:
The sea floor is teeming with microbes, whose sheer numbers produce a major effect on the global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, sulfur, and other important nutrients. Bowles et al. constructed a map showing how deeply sulfates penetrate marine sediments worldwide and how quickly that sulfate is chemically reduced by microbes in the sub–sea-floor. Globally, almost a third of the organic carbon that reaches the sea floor is consumed during sulfate reduction, and the vast majority of microbial cells in the sub–sea-floor at continental margins get their energy through the biochemical processes of fermentation and methanogenesis. Science , this issue p. 889 .
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0036-8075
,
1095-9203
DOI:
10.1126/science.1249213
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Publication Date:
2014
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128410-1
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2066996-3
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2060783-0
SSG:
11
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