Picoplankton Do Some Heavy Lifting
- 9 February 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 315 (5813) , 777-778
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1137438
Abstract
Tiny unicellular plants called picoplankton play an unexpectedly large role in the transport of organic matter to the deep ocean.Keywords
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