Interactions in the Dark Ocean
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By , on July 5th, 2010 One comment   Biology, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Plankton   , , , , , , ,  

Fig 1 from Steinberg and Hansell (2010) DSRIIThe recent of issue of Deep-Sea Research II is out and focuses on the ecological and biogeochemical interactions in the dark ocean. Perhaps the best summary of why this is an important contribution is from the editor of the volume themselves… The deep sea, a vast, dark realm . . . → Read More: Interactions in the Dark Ocean

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What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?
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By , on March 21st, 2010 6 comments   Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Microbes, New Research, Organisms, Plankton   , , , , ,  

[Note the following post makes gratuitous use of keyboard symbols to denote adult language] In the coolest titled paper ever “Assessing the apparent imbalance between geochemical and biochemical indicators of meso- and bathypelagic biological activity: What the @$#! is wrong with present calculations of carbon budgets?” with the world’s coolest handling editor, Burd et al . . . → Read More: What the @$#! is wrong with carbon budgets?

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