The marine microbial food web : competition and defence as shaping forces from ecosystem to genes
Tron Frede Thingstad
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Opplysninger | "The ocean's surface ecosystem covers about 2/3 of the earth's surface, is responsible for about 50% of global primary production and sequesters about 25% of our CO2 emissions from fossil fuel burning. In terms of organism size, the marine microbes and their top predator cover a size range of 4 orders of magnitude, from 10-7m (viruses) to 10-3m (copepods), the same range as from copepods to whales (101m). Due to the conditions for life in water, almost all marine primary production is by unicellular phytoplankton. Not only do commercial fisheries therefore depend on the functions of the microbial part, but in terms of fluxes of energy, carbon and other elements, the microbial part is the dominating the marine pelagic. Understanding how microbes work together in this system is therefore a question of understanding the main part of one of the world's largest habitats."-- Provided by publisher.
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| ISBN | 9781394251629
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