Role of free-living (or attached to non-sinking suspended particles) versus attached to fast sinking particles heterotrophic prokaryotes in the biological carbon pump at the PAP site (NE Atlantic Ocean)

Tamburini, Christian

Role of free-living (or attached to non-sinking suspended particles) versus attached to fast sinking particles heterotrophic prokaryotes in the biological carbon pump at the PAP site (NE Atlantic Ocean)

Christian Tamburini¹, Chloé Baumas¹, Marc Garel¹, Fabrice Armougom¹, Aude Barani¹, Sophie Guasco¹, Anna Belcher², Nagib Bhairy¹, Christos Panagiotopoulos¹, Virginie Riou¹, Chiara Santinelli³, Richard Stephen Lampitt⁴ and Frederic A.C. Le Moigne¹, (1)Aix Marseille Univ., Université Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO UM 110, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France, Marseille, France, (2)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)CNR Institute of Biophysics, Pisa, Italy, (4)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom