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04 Aug 2016
Research article |
| 04 Aug 2016
Patterns of carbon processing at the seafloor: the role of faunal and microbial communities in moderating carbon flows
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Steven Bouillon
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven,
Belgium
Gregory L. Cowie
School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road,
Edinburgh, EH9 3JW, UK
Emily Drake
School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Jack J. Middelburg
Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ-Yerseke), P.O. Box
140, 4400 AC Yerseke, the Netherlands
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80021, 3508
TA Utrecht, the Netherlands
Ursula Witte
Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Oceanlab,
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB41 6AA, UK
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Estuarine sediments are important locations for carbon cycling and burial. We used tracer experiments to investigate how site conditions affect the way in which seafloor biological communities cycle carbon. We showed that while total respiration rates are primarily determined by temperature, total carbon processing by the biological community is strongly related to
its biomass. Further, we saw a distinct pattern of carbon cycling in sandy sediment, in which uptake by bacteria dominates.
Estuarine sediments are important locations for carbon cycling and burial. We used tracer...
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