Sediment anoxia limits microbial-driven seagrass carbon remineralization under warming conditions

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Trevathan Tackett, Stacey M ^a,b   Seymour, Justin R ^a   Nielsen, Daniel A ^a   Macreadie, Peter I ^a,b   Jeffries, Thomas C ^a,c   Sanderman, Jonathan ^d,e   Baldock, Jeff ^d   Howes, Johanna M ^a   Steven, Andrew D L ^d   Ralph, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial remineralization; Carbon cycling; Oxygen availability; Seagrass microbiology; Succession; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ANOXIA; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOMASS; BIOMINERALIZATION; CARBON CYCLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EUTROPHICATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; OXYGEN; PHYTODETRITUS; SEAGRASS; SUCCESSION; WARMING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFOBACTERACEAE; ERYTHROBACTERACEAE; HYPHOMICROBIACEAE;

CARBON; OXYGEN; RNA 16S; SEA WATER;

ALISMATALES; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOBACTERIA; SEDIMENT;

ALISMATIDAE; ANAEROBIOSIS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM; EUTROPHICATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HOT TEMPERATURE; OXYGEN; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER;

EID: 85021747702     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fix033     Document Type: Article

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