Motility drives bacterial encounter with particles responsible for carbon export throughout the ocean
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2019-10Type
- Journal Article
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Abstract
Numerical abundance is often considered of primary importance when identifying microbial taxa that drive biogeochemical processes. However, there are a growing number of examples where numerically less abundant microbes carry out critical ecosystem processes. Here, we discuss a paradigmatic example and the mechanism that underpins it: how motility, by dramatically increasing encounter rate, allows otherwise rare microbes to be numerically dominant on particles that are responsible for vertical carbon export throughout the ocean. Show more
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https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000376088Publication status
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Limnology and Oceanography LettersVolume
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Publisher
WileyOrganisational unit
09467 - Stocker, Roman / Stocker, Roman
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