Articles | Volume 19, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-117-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-117-2022
Research article
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06 Jan 2022
Research article |  | 06 Jan 2022

Modeling polar marine ecosystem functions guided by bacterial physiological and taxonomic traits

Hyewon Heather Kim, Jeff S. Bowman, Ya-Wei Luo, Hugh W. Ducklow, Oscar M. Schofield, Deborah K. Steinberg, and Scott C. Doney

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