Farooq Azam and Francesca Malfatti review important early developments, such as the microbial-loop concept, and outline the challenges that are associated with understanding cell-to-cell ...
Through a combination of high bacterial respiration and phage lysis, a continuous supply of terrestrial DOC was lost from the aquatic ecosystem in a CO₂-vented bacterial–viral loop. Bacterial ... of ...
Climate change models estimate that C released from thawing arctic permafrost might represent the largest future transfer of C from the biosphere to the atmosphere resulting in a positive feedback ...