Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation

JA Fuhrman, JA Cram, DM Needham - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2015 - nature.com
Recent advances in studying the dynamics of marine microbial communities have shown
that the composition of these communities follows predictable patterns and involves complex …

Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms

F Chai, KS Johnson, H Claustre, X Xing… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Human activities have altered the state of the ocean, leading to warming, acidification and
deoxygenation. These changes impact ocean biogeochemistry and influence ecosystem …

The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2)–an internally consistent data product for the world ocean

A Olsen, RM Key, S Van Heuven… - Earth System …, 2016 - essd.copernicus.org
Version 2 of the Global Ocean Data Analysis Project (GLODAPv2) data product is composed
of data from 724 scientific cruises covering the global ocean. It includes data assembled …

Metrics that matter for assessing the ocean biological carbon pump

KO Buesseler, PW Boyd, EE Black… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The biological carbon pump (BCP) comprises wide-ranging processes that set carbon
supply, consumption, and storage in the oceans' interior. It is becoming increasingly evident …

A time-series view of changing surface ocean chemistry due to ocean uptake of anthropogenic CO₂ and ocean acidification

NR Bates, YM Astor, MJ Church, K Currie, JE Dore… - Oceanography, 2014 - JSTOR
Sustained observations provide critically needed data and understanding not only about
ocean warming and water cycle reorganization (eg, salinity changes), ocean eutrophication …

Global assessment of ocean carbon export by combining satellite observations and food‐web models

DA Siegel, KO Buesseler, SC Doney… - Global …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The export of organic carbon from the surface ocean by sinking particles is an important, yet
highly uncertain, component of the global carbon cycle. Here we introduce a mechanistic …

Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Hundreds of Coexisting Subpopulations in Wild Prochlorococcus

N Kashtan, SE Roggensack, S Rodrigue… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Extensive genomic diversity within coexisting members of a microbial species has been
revealed through selected cultured isolates and metagenomic assemblies. Yet, the cell-by …

Strong latitudinal patterns in the elemental ratios of marine plankton and organic matter

AC Martiny, CTA Pham, FW Primeau, JA Vrugt… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Nearly 75 years ago, Alfred C. Redfield observed a similarity between the elemental
composition of marine plankton in the surface ocean and dissolved nutrients in the ocean …

Carbon fixation rates in groundwater similar to those in oligotrophic marine systems

WA Overholt, S Trumbore, X Xu, TLV Bornemann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The terrestrial subsurface contains nearly all of Earth's freshwater reserves and harbours the
majority of our planet's total prokaryotic biomass. Although genetic surveys suggest these …

Environmental genome shotgun sequencing of the Sargasso Sea

JC Venter, K Remington, JF Heidelberg, AL Halpern… - science, 2004 - science.org
We have applied “whole-genome shotgun sequencing” to microbial populations collected
en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the …