The “biological pump” is the process by which photosynthetically-produced organic matter in
the ocean descends from the surface layer to depth by a combination of sinking particles …

A fraction of the carbon captured by phytoplankton in the sunlit surface ocean sinks to depth
as dead organic matter and faecal material. The microbial breakdown of this material in the …

Most of the carbon fixed in primary production is rapidly cycled and remin-eralized, leaving
behind various forms of organic carbon that contribute to a vast reservoir of nonliving …

Effects of hydrostatic pressure on pure cultures of prokaryotes have been studied
extensively but impacts at the community level in the ocean are less well defined. Here we …

The proportions of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) in surface ocean particulate
matter deviate greatly from the canonical Redfield Ratio (C: N: P= 106: 16: 1) in space and …

The average citizen thinks of microbes as dangerous or at least as nasty enemies to her/his
health that she/he cannot see. The invisibility to the naked eye is the reason why microbes …

GABA has attracted great attention over the last several decades due to its ubiquity in life. It
is an important molecule naturally present in considerable amounts in many feed and food …

Here we present results from sediment traps that separate particles as a function of their
settling velocity, which were moored in the Canary Current region over a 1.5‐year period …

Among the parameters affecting carbon transfer to the ocean interior, particle sinking rates
vary three orders of magnitude and thus more than primary production, f-ratios, or particle …

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a multivariate data analysis tool that can be used to
recombine the variables of a large multivariate dataset in such a way that the first few …