Vertically structured prokaryotic community can control the efficiency of the biological pump in the oceans

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 199-216

  Miki, Takeshi ^a   Giuggioli, Luca ^b   Kobayashi, Yutaka ^c   Nagata, Toshi ^d   Levin, Simon A ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon cycling; Heterotrophic prokaryotes; Metacommunity; Vertical mixing and sinking

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON FLUX; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ECOTYPE; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; GENERALIST; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROKARYOTE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VERTICAL MIXING;

ALGAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 72549110080     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-009-0042-8     Document Type: Article

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