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• Q&A | 11 May 2023

  Phosphorus from land to sea

  Nature Geoscience spoke with Dr Shlomit Sharoni, an ocean biogeochemist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Kelly Andersen, a tropical ecologist at Nanyang Technological University about the interplay between phosphorous cycling and the ecosystems they study.

  • James Super

• News & Views | 14 November 2016

  Ocean dissolved organics matter

  Large quantities of organic carbon are stored in the ocean, but its biogeochemical behaviour is elusive. Size–age–composition relations now quantify the production of tiny organic molecules as a major pathway for carbon sequestration.

  • Rainer M. W. Amon

• News & Views | 13 June 2016

  Carbon losses in the Alps

  Soil carbon stocks depend on inputs from decomposing vegetation and return to the atmosphere as CO₂. Monitoring of carbon stocks in German alpine soils has shown large losses linked to climate change and a possible positive feedback loop.

  • Guy Kirk

• Letter | 07 November 2010

  Sedimentary membrane lipids recycled by deep-sea benthic archaea

  Archaea are prevalent in the deep sea, and comprise a major fraction of the biomass in marine sediments. ¹³C-labelling experiments on the sea floor suggest that benthic archaea use sedimentary organic compounds to construct their membranes.

  • Yoshinori Takano
  • , Yoshito Chikaraishi
  •  & Naohiko Ohkouchi