Photosynthesis or planktonic respiration?

Richard J. Geider ()
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Richard J. Geider: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6638, 132-132

Abstract: Abstract The nutrient-poor (oligotrophic) regions of the open ocean cover 30% of the Earth's surface. Microscopic plants (phytoplankton) living in this habitat account for about 10% of global CO2fixation1. Most of this organic production is rapidly respired within a microbial food web dominated by photosynthetic bacteria, heterotrophic bacteria and small (

Date: 1997
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