Microscale ecology regulates particulate organic matter turnover in model marine microbial communities

Particle-attached bacteria play a key ecosystem role by degrading complex organic materials in the ocean. Here, the authors use model marine microbial communities to show that community composition and interspecies interactions can significantly slowdown the rates of particle turnover in the environ...

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Main Authors: Tim N. Enke, Gabriel E. Leventhal, Matthew Metzger, José T. Saavedra, Otto X. Cordero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05159-8