Sunday 27 July 2014

Ecological impact of microbial respiration in oxygen-starved oceans

WATER WORLD
Ecological impact of microbial respiration in oxygen-starved oceans
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 24, 2014 - A sulfur-oxidizing bacterial group called SUP05 will play an increasingly important role in carbon and nutrient cycling in the world's oceans as oxygen minimum zones expand, according to research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. University of British Columbia researchers plumbed the depth of a seasonally anoxic fjord, Canada's Saanich Inlet, to ch ... more


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