Microbial Turnover of Organic Matter in the Deep Sea
- 31 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 29 (4) , 228-232
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1307627
Abstract
Metabolic transformations of organic substrates by natural microbial populations are slower in deep sea incubation experiments and in undecompressed samples than after retrieval or decompression, respectively. These reduced levels of activity have to be considered in estimating natural remineralization processes or the microbial decomposition of man-made pollution in the deep sea.Keywords
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