Marine bacterioplankton can increase evaporation and gas transfer by metabolizing insoluble surfactants from the air-seawater interface

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 294, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-231

  Salter, Ian ^a,b   Zubkov, Mikhail V ^a   Warwick, Phil E ^a   Burkill, Peter H ^a,c,d  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaporation; Hydrophobic; Isotopic tracer; Marine bacteria; Surface microlayer; Surfactant

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; INSOLUBLE SURFACTANT; PALMITIC ACID; SEA WATER; SURFACTANT; TRITIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AIR; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; GAS DIFFUSION; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERFACE PRESSURE; LABELING INDEX; MARINE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCHEMISTRY; SEA; TIME; VIBRIO; VIBRIO NATRIEGENS;

AIR; ANIMALS; GASES; PALMITIC ACID; PHASE TRANSITION; PLANKTON; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SEAWATER; SURFACE-ACTIVE AGENTS; VIBRIO; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO NATRIEGENS;

EID: 64549121123     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01572.x     Document Type: Article

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