Microbes contribute to setting the ocean carbon flux by altering the fate of sinking particulates

Mesopelagic microbial carbon production correlates with diversity across different marine particle fractions

(2021) Chloé M. J. Baumas et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial dynamics of elevated carbon flux in the open ocean’s abyss

(2021) Kirsten E. Poff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temperature controls carbon cycling and biological evolution in the ocean twilight zone

(2021) Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo et al.   SCIENCE

Production and diversity of microorganisms associated with sinking particles in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean

(2021) Matthew J. Church et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Sinking enhances the degradation of organic particles by marine bacteria

(2021) Uria Alcolombri et al.   Nature Geoscience

Major role of particle fragmentation in regulating biological sequestration of CO2 by the oceans

(2020) Nathan Briggs et al.   SCIENCE

Sinking flux of particulate organic matter in the oceans: Sensitivity to particle characteristics

(2020) Melissa M. Omand et al.   Scientific Reports

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

(2020) Johannes Lehmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Deep zooplankton rely on small particles when particle fluxes are low

(2020) Sonia Romero‐Romero et al.   Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Migratory Zooplankton Excreta and Its Influence on Prokaryotic Communities

(2020) Amy E. Maas et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Modular Assembly of Polysaccharide-Degrading Marine Microbial Communities

(2019) Tim N. Enke et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An empirical model of carbon flow through marine viruses and microzooplankton grazers

(2019) David Talmy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Multi-faceted particle pumps drive carbon sequestration in the ocean

(2019) Philip W. Boyd et al.   NATURE

Shallow particulate organic carbon regeneration in the South Pacific Ocean

(2019) Frank J. Pavia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological composition and microbial dynamics of sinking particulate organic matter at abyssal depths in the oligotrophic open ocean

(2019) Dominique Boeuf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coupling carbon and energy fluxes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

(2019) Eric Grabowski et al.   Nature Communications

Cooperation and spatial self-organization determine rate and efficiency of particulate organic matter degradation in marine bacteria

(2019) Ali Ebrahimi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Role of Particle Size, Ballast, Temperature, and Oxygen in the Sinking Flux to the Deep Sea

(2018) Jacob A. Cram et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Global niche of marine anaerobic metabolisms expanded by particle microenvironments

(2018) Daniele Bianchi et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ecological control of nitrite in the upper ocean

(2018) Emily J. Zakem et al.   Nature Communications

Episodic organic carbon fluxes from surface ocean to abyssal depths during long-term monitoring in NE Pacific

(2018) Kenneth L. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global evaluation of particulate organic carbon flux parameterizations and implications for atmospheric pCO2

(2017) Lucas Gloege et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The export and fate of organic matter in the ocean: New constraints from combining satellite and oceanographic tracer observations

(2017) Tim DeVries et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Spatial variability of marine bacterial and archaeal communities along the particulate matter continuum

(2017) Mireia Mestre et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Remineralization of particulate organic carbon in an ocean oxygen minimum zone

(2017) E. L. Cavan et al.   Nature Communications

Bacterial Succession on Sinking Particles in the Ocean's Interior

(2017) Erik A. Pelve et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Growth Rates of Microbes in the Oceans

(2016) David L. Kirchman   Annual Review of Marine Science

Experimental demonstration of an Allee effect in microbial populations

(2016) RajReni B. Kaul et al.   Biology Letters

Phytoplankton size impact on export flux in the global ocean

(2016) Colleen B. Mouw et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

(2016) Lionel Guidi et al.   NATURE

Deep ocean nutrients imply large latitudinal variation in particle transfer efficiency

(2016) Thomas Weber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial interactions lead to rapid micro-scale successions on model marine particles

(2016) Manoshi S. Datta et al.   Nature Communications

A new look at ocean carbon remineralization for estimating deepwater sequestration

(2015) Lionel Guidi et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Attenuation of sinking particulate organic carbon flux through the mesopelagic ocean

(2015) Chris M. Marsay et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Analysis of remineralisation, lability, temperature sensitivity and structural composition of organic matter from the upper ocean

(2015) Jørgen Bendtsen et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Ubiquitous healthy diatoms in the deep sea confirm deep carbon injection by the biological pump

(2015) S. Agusti et al.   Nature Communications

Group behavior among model bacteria influences particulate carbon remineralization depths

(2015) K. A. S. Mislan et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE RESEARCH

Global ocean biogeochemistry model HAMOCC: Model architecture and performance as component of the MPI-Earth system model in different CMIP5 experimental realizations

(2015) Tatiana Ilyina et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone

(2014) Sarah L. C. Giering et al.   NATURE

Prokaryotic responses to hydrostatic pressure in the ocean - a review

(2013) Christian Tamburini et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Estimates of net community production and export using high-resolution, Lagrangian measurements of O2, NO3−, and POC through the evolution of a spring diatom bloom in the North Atlantic

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The relative contribution of fast and slow sinking particles to ocean carbon export

(2012) J. S. Riley et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Marine snow, zooplankton and thin layers: indications of a trophic link from small-scale sampling with the Video Plankton Recorder

(2012) KO Möller et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Predictable and efficient carbon sequestration in the North Pacific Ocean supported by symbiotic nitrogen fixation

(2012) D. M. Karl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High-resolution observations of aggregate flux during a sub-polar North Atlantic spring bloom

(2011) Nathan Briggs et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

The dynamic ocean biological pump: Insights from a global compilation of particulate organic carbon, CaCO3, and opal concentration profiles from the mesopelagic

(2011) Phoebe J. Lam et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Shedding light on processes that control particle export and flux attenuation in the twilight zone of the open ocean

(2011) Ken O. Buesseler et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

High resolution profiles of vertical particulate organic matter export off Cape Blanc, Mauritania: Degradation processes and ballasting effects

(2010) Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Bacterial vs. zooplankton control of sinking particle flux in the ocean's twilight zone

(2010) Deborah K. Steinberg et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Variability in the average sinking velocity of marine particles

(2010) Andrew M. P. McDonnell et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of hydrostatic pressure on microbial alteration of sinking fecal pellets

(2009) Christian Tamburini et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Impact of particle aggregation on vertical fluxes of organic matter

(2009) G. Karakaş et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Particle Aggregation

(2008) Adrian B. Burd et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science