Magnetotactic bacterial abundance in pelagic marine environments is limited by organic carbon flux and availability of dissolved iron

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 310, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 441-452

  Roberts, Andrew P ^a,b   Florindo, Fabio ^c   Villa, Giuliana ^d   Chang, Liao ^a   Jovane, Luigi ^a,c   Bohaty, Steven M ^a   Larrasoaña, Juan C ^e   Heslop, David ^b   Fitz Gerald, John D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Iron; Magnetite; Magnetofossils; Magnetotactic bacteria; Organic carbon; Productivity

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN DUSTS; BACTERIAL ABUNDANCE; BACTERIAL POPULATION; DIAGENETICS; DISSOLVED IRON; GRAIN SIZE; IRON FERTILIZATION; IRON REDUCTION; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; LATE EOCENE; LOW RATES; MAGNETOFOSSILS; MAGNETOTACTIC BACTERIA; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OPTIMAL ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON BURIAL; ORGANIC CARBON FLUXES; PELAGIC CARBONATES; PORE WATERS; REDOX ZONATION; SEA FLOOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WATER EUTROPHICATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DISSOLUTION; EUTROPHICATION; IRON; IRON ORES; MAGNETITE;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON FLUX; CARBONATE; EUTROPHICATION; FOSSIL; GRAIN SIZE; IRON; MAGNETITE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PALEOMAGNETISM; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; SURFACE WATER;

INDIAN OCEAN; KERGUELEN PLATEAU;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80053381935     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.08.011     Document Type: Article

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