A deep-sea creature is pulling carbon from the atmosphere. Scientists didn’t know it was there.

Scientists could never square theory with data on how certain organisms fixed carbon. Turns out they were asking the wrong ...
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Modeling the Relative Contributions of Autotrophs and Heterotrophs to Carbon Flow at a Lagrangian JGOFS Station in the Northeast Atlantic: The Importance of DOC

A size-structured ecosystem model was developed and fitted to an extensive set of observations of size-fractionated biomass, primary and heterotrophic bacterial production, respiration, particle flux, ...
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Nutrient and Light Availability Regulate the Relative Contribution of Autotrophs and Heterotrophs to Respiration in Freshwater Pelagic Ecosystems

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this study, two main hypotheses were addressed. (1) Bacteria contribute proportionally less than autotrophs to ecosystem respiration as ...
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Elevated temperature increases carbon and nitrogen fluxes between phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria through physical attachment

Quantifying the contribution of marine microorganisms to carbon and nitrogen cycles and their response to predicted ocean warming is one of the main challenges of microbial oceanography. Here we ...
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What is the difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic modes of nutrition?

All living organisms need energy to perform various life processes and the source of energy for all living organisms is food. It is available from different sources. There are two types of modes of ...
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Harnessing the power of microbial autotrophy

Autotrophic microorganisms have the potential to efficiently convert CO 2 into a wide range of chemicals and biofuels, which is a promising sustainable avenue for future biotechnology. Natural ...