Micro-gels from tiny ice algae play an important role in polar ocean carbon budgets
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 10 September, 2013
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Secretion of polysaccharides from the micro community living within the sea ice stick organism together and forms greater particles introducing a rapid transport of carbon to the seafloor. New research now makes it possible to forecast the importance for the global carbon budget of this transport....