High rates of microbial carbon turnover in sediments in the deepest oceanic trench on Earth

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 284-288

  Glud, Ronnie N ^a,b,c   Wenzhöfer, Frank ^d,e   Middelboe, Mathias ^f   Oguri, Kazumasa ^b,g   Turnewitsch, Robert ^b   Canfield, Donald E ^a   Kitazato, Hiroshi ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Greenland Climate Research Centre   (Greenland)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECOMPOSITION; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EARTH SCIENCE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; PRESSURE EFFECT; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; TRENCH; WATER DEPTH;

MARIANA TRENCH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84875776251     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1773     Document Type: Article

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