Microscale ecology regulates particulate organic matter turnover in model marine microbial communities.
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SUBMITTER: Enke TN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6048024 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
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Microscale ecology regulates particulate organic matter turnover in model marine microbial communities.
Enke Tim N TN Leventhal Gabriel E GE Metzger Matthew M Saavedra José T JT Cordero Otto X OX
Nature communications 20180716 1
The degradation of particulate organic matter in the ocean is a central process in the global carbon cycle, the mode and tempo of which is determined by the bacterial communities that assemble on particle surfaces. Here, we find that the capacity of communities to degrade particles is highly dependent on community composition using a collection of marine bacteria cultured from different stages of succession on chitin microparticles. Different particle degrading taxa display characteristic partic ...[more]
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