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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Nonprofit•Castroville, California, United States•
About: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is a nonprofit organization based out in Castroville, California, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Upwelling & Population. The organization has 630 authors who have published 2068 publications receiving 119899 citations. The organization is also known as: Monterey Bay Aquarium and Research Institute & MBARI.
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TL;DR: In their Perspective, Seibel and Walsh warn that even small perturbations in COor pH may have important consequences for deep-sea ecosystems and for global biogeochemical cycles.
Abstract: Efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions are increasingly looking to the oceans, either through iron fertilization programs (see this week9s Policy Forum by
Chisholm
et al.) or through COinjection into the deep sea. In their Perspective,
Seibel and Walsh
investigate how such deep-sea disposal may affect organisms that live in these environments. They warn that even small perturbations in COor pH may have important consequences for deep-sea ecosystems and for global biogeochemical cycles. Detailed studies into these effects are needed before the risks and benefits of deep-sea carbon storage can be assessed appropriately.
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TL;DR: A fosmid library with inserts containing approximately 40 kb of marine bacterial DNA (J. Stein, T. L. DeLong, J. Marsh, K. Y. Wu, H. Shizuya, and E. F.
Abstract: A fosmid library with inserts containing approximately 40 kb of marine bacterial DNA (J. L. Stein, T. L. Marsh, K. Y. Wu, H. Shizuya, and E. F. DeLong, J. Bacteriol. 178:591-599, 1996) yielded four clones with 16S rRNA genes from the order Planctomycetales. Three of the clones belong to the Pirellula group and one clone belongs to the Planctomyces group, based on phylogenetic and signature nucleotide analyses of full-length 16S rRNA genes. Sequence analysis of the ends of the genes revealed a consistent mismatch in a widely used bacterium-specific 16S rRNA PCR amplification priming site (27F), which has also been reported in some thermophiles and spirochetes.
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TL;DR: Major unresolved questions remain about the role of hydrates in response to climate change today, and correlations between the hydrate reservoir of Earth and the stable isotopic evidence of massive hydrate dissociation in the geologic past.
Abstract: Scientific knowledge of natural clathrate hydrates has grown enormously over the past decade, with spectacular new findings of large exposures of complex hydrates on the sea floor, the development of new tools for examining the solid phase in situ, significant progress in modeling natural hydrate systems, and the discovery of exotic hydrates associated with sea floor venting of liquid CO2. Major unresolved questions remain about the role of hydrates in response to climate change today, and correlations between the hydrate reservoir of Earth and the stable isotopic evidence of massive hydrate dissociation in the geologic past. The examination of hydrates as a possible energy resource is proceeding apace for the subpermafrost accumulations in the Arctic, but serious questions remain about the viability of marine hydrates as an economic resource. New and energetic explorations by nations such as India and China are quickly uncovering large hydrate findings on their continental shelves.
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University of Bristol1, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences2, University College London3, University of Oxford4, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton5, University of Southampton6, Aix-Marseille University7, Massachusetts Institute of Technology8, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute9, American Museum of Natural History10, University of California, Riverside11
TL;DR: It is concluded that calcification has high energy demands and that coccolithophores might have calcified initially to reduce grazing pressure but that additional benefits such as protection from photodamage and viral/bacterial attack further explain their high diversity and broad spectrum ecology.
Abstract: Calcifying marine phytoplankton—coccolithophores— are some of the most successful yet enigmatic organisms in the ocean and are at risk from global change. To better understand how they will be affected, we need to know “why” coccolithophores calcify. We review coccolithophorid evolutionary history and cell biology as well as insights from recent experiments to provide a critical assessment of the costs and benefits of calcification. We conclude that calcification has high energy demands and that coccolithophores might have calcified initially to reduce grazing pressure but that additional benefits such as protection from photodamage and viral/bacterial attack further explain their high diversity and broad spectrum ecology. The cost-benefit aspect of these traits is illustrated by novel ecosystem modeling, although conclusive observations remain limited. In the future ocean, the trade-off between changing ecological and physiological costs of calcification and their benefits will ultimately decide how this important group is affected by ocean acidification and global warming.
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TL;DR: It is reported that common temporal and ecological dynamics underpin disparate marine microbial communities, providing the first evidence that trans-Pacific diurnal transcriptional patterns in these communities may regulate ecological and biogeochemical processes across the ocean.
Abstract: Planktonic microbial communities in the ocean are typically dominated by several cosmopolitan clades of Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya characterized by their ribosomal RNA gene phylogenies and genomic features. Although the environments these communities inhabit range from coastal to open ocean waters, how the biological dynamics vary between such disparate habitats is not well known. To gain insight into the differential activities of microbial populations inhabiting different oceanic provinces we compared the daily metatranscriptome profiles of related microbial populations inhabiting surface waters of both a coastal California upwelling region (CC) as well as the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG). Transcriptional networks revealed that the dominant photoautotrophic microbes in each environment (Ostreococcus in CC, Prochlorococcus in NPSG) were central determinants of overall community transcriptome dynamics. Furthermore, heterotrophic bacterial clades common to both ecosystems (SAR11, SAR116, SAR86, SAR406, and Roseobacter) displayed conserved, genome-wide inter- and intrataxon transcriptional patterns and diel cycles. Populations of SAR11 and SAR86 clades in particular exhibited tightly coordinated transcriptional patterns in both coastal and pelagic ecosystems, suggesting that specific biological interactions between these groups are widespread in nature. Our results identify common diurnally oscillating behaviors among diverse planktonic microbial species regardless of habitat, suggesting that highly conserved temporally phased biotic interactions are ubiquitous among planktonic microbial communities worldwide.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Edward F. DeLong | 102 | 262 | 42794 |
Gaurav S. Sukhatme | 89 | 664 | 29569 |
Francisco P. Chavez | 85 | 287 | 29131 |
Barbara A. Block | 78 | 272 | 19039 |
David A. Caron | 73 | 273 | 16938 |
Kenneth S. Johnson | 71 | 208 | 19892 |
Jonathan P. Zehr | 70 | 250 | 18542 |
Robert C. Vrijenhoek | 67 | 200 | 25542 |
David A. Clague | 65 | 240 | 14041 |
Kenneth H. Coale | 60 | 116 | 17637 |
Peter G. Brewer | 60 | 209 | 13158 |
Michael J. Kelley | 59 | 339 | 27513 |
Raphael M. Kudela | 59 | 229 | 12094 |
Charles K. Paull | 56 | 208 | 11139 |
Steven J. Hallam | 54 | 178 | 12936 |