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Some studies on the distribution and composition of particulate organic carbon in the North Atlantic Ocean
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In this paper, the authors analyzed samples from 50 stations in the North Atlantic for particulate organic carbon and found that organic matter comprises about one third of the total mass of suspended matter.About:
This article is published in Deep Sea Research and Oceanographic Abstracts.The article was published on 1970-04-01. It has received 96 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Organic matter & Particulates.read more
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The Ocean's Food Web, A Changing Paradigm
TL;DR: Although the ocean's food web has been studied for more than a century, several recent discoveries lead us to believe that the classical textbook model of a chain from diatoms through copepods and krill to fishes and whales may in fact be only a small part of the flow of energy.
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Vertical flux of particles in the ocean
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that most material reaching the bottom of the ocean does so rapidly in aggregates, and that most of the particle flux, the product of settling velocity and mass, is in the coarser size classes.
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Starvation-Survival of Heterotrophs in the Marine Environment
TL;DR: The preservation of the catalytic ability of bacteria is an important aspect of the cycles of matter as mentioned in this paper, and as long as the genome is preserved, it will be expressed when the environmental conditions become appropriate, and this depends on the availability of suitable energy-yielding substrates.
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Marine snow studies in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: distribution, composition and role as a food source for migrating plankton
TL;DR: During a 25 d Lagrangian study in May and June 1990 in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, marine snow aggregates were collected using a novel water bottle, and the composition was determined microscopically, revealing a characteristic signature of a matrix of bacteria, cyanobacteria and autotrophic picoplankton with inter alia inclusions of the tintiniid Dictyocysta elegans and large pennate diatoms.
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Particulate Organic Matter in Sea Water
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that phytoplankton is the most important source of organic matter in sea water, which is derived from attached aquatic vegetation in shallow waters, macroscopic pelagic algae, and waterborne and windborne materials of terrestrial origin.
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The measurement of adenosine triphosphate in the ocean and its ecological significance1
TL;DR: The ATP levels found at various depths in the ocean indicate bacterial populations between 50−2,000 times those found by plating techniques, and the biomass of living material in the water has been estimated using the ATP content of laboratory cultured microorganisms as indicators of endogenous ATP levels.
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A detailed analysis of biologically important substances in a profile off southern california
TL;DR: In this paper, the vertical profiles of salinity, temperature, 10 soluble inorganic and organic constituents and six particulate organic constituents have been determined at a station over the Santa Catalina Basin.
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Organic carbon and the oxygen minimum in the South Atlantic Ocean
David W. Menzel,John H. Ryther +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between organic matter and the oxygen minimum layer was studied in the southwest Atlantic and it was concluded that the concentration of oxygen and organic carbon is controlled by the mixing of opposing water masses, at depths in excess of several hundred meters.
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Organic aggregates in surface and deep waters of the sargasso sea1
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The composition of particulate organic matter in the western north atlantic1
David W. Menzel,John H. Ryther +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the composition of particulate matter in the western North Atlantic was examined to determine relationships between carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and chlorophyll and the relationship between these parameters and the distribution of detritus is discussed.