Microbes, Molecules, and Marine Ecosystems
- 12 March 2004
- journal article
- perspective
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 303 (5664) , 1622-1624
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1093892
Abstract
Ecosystem complexity has been a huge challenge for marine ecologists and conservation biologists, and recent discoveries of great microbial diversity and abundance have further compounded the problem. In their Perspective, Azam and Worden propose a unifying ecosystems biology approach, treating marine ecosystems as biochemical matrices and molecular architectures.Keywords
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