New perspectives in benthic deep-sea microbial ecology
Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest and most remote biome of the biosphere. They play a fundamental role in global biogeochemical cycles and their functions allow existence of life on our planet. In the last 20 years enormous progress has been made in the investigation of deep-sea microbes, bu...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2015.00017/full |