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Microbes in a sea of sinking particles

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Mimicking microbial degradation of sinking marine particles in the laboratory reveals a complex relationship between settling and decomposition rates that informs our view on how the ocean’s biological carbon pump is controlled.

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Fig. 1: The relationship between particle sinking speed and degradation rates in the ocean.

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Boyd, P.W., Kennedy, F. Microbes in a sea of sinking particles. Nat Microbiol 6, 1479–1480 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-021-01005-8

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