Airborne microbes contribute to N2 fixation in surface water of the Northern Red Sea

Eyal Rahav1, Adina Paytan2, Esra Mescioglu3, Yuri Galletti4, Sahar Rosenfeld5, Ofrat Raveh5, Chiara Santinelli6, Tung-Yuan Hou7 and Barak Herut5, (1)Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel, (2)UCSC-Inst Marine Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (4)Institute of Biophysics, C.N.R, Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Italy, (5)Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel, (6)CNR Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy, (7)IONTU Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan