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Marine Microbes See a Sea of Gradients
Description: Marine bacteria influence Earth's environmental dynamics in fundamental ways by controlling the biogeochemistry and productivity of the oceans. This is an exciting time to explore this frontier of oceanography, but understanding microbial behavior and competition in the context of the water column's microarchitecture calls for new ecological frameworks, such as a microbial optimal foraging theory, to determine the relevant trade-offs and global consequences of microbial life in a sea of gradients. [Source: Science]
URL: http://dx.doi.org/
Availability: Summary
Source: Science
Publish Date: 11/2/2012
Reading Level: Expert
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