Research charts ecological impact of microbial respiration in oxygen-starved ocean
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 23 July, 2014
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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. To conduct this study, researchers plumbed the depth of a seasonally anoxic fjord, Canada's Saanich Inlet, to chart how microbial community metabolism changes as oxygen minimum zones form....