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SUBMITTER: Mayol E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544686 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mayol Eva E Arrieta Jesús M JM Jiménez Maria A MA Martínez-Asensio Adrián A Garcias-Bonet Neus N Dachs Jordi J González-Gaya Belén B Royer Sarah-J SJ Benítez-Barrios Verónica M VM Fraile-Nuez Eugenio E Duarte Carlos M CM
Nature communications 20170804 1
The atmosphere plays a fundamental role in the transport of microbes across the planet but it is often neglected as a microbial habitat. Although the ocean represents two thirds of the Earth's surface, there is little information on the atmospheric microbial load over the open ocean. Here we provide a global estimate of microbial loads and air-sea exchanges over the tropical and subtropical oceans based on the data collected along the Malaspina 2010 Circumnavigation Expedition. Total loads of ai ...[more]