Perspectives on the microbial carbon pump with special reference to microbial respiration and ecosystem efficiency in large estuarine systems
Although respiration-based oxidation of reduced carbon releases CO<sub>2</sub> into the environment, it provides an ecosystem with the metabolic energy for essential biogeochemical processes, including the newly proposed microbial carbon pump (MCP). The efficiency of MCP in heterotrophic...
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| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Biogeosciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/3887/2014/bg-11-3887-2014.pdf |