1. Microbial carbon monoxide uptake in the St. Lawrence estuarine system.
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Huixiang Xie, Yong Zhang, Lemarchand, Karine, and Poulin, Patrick
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CARBON monoxide ,ESTUARINE ecology ,OXIDATION ,MARINE bacteria ,BIODIVERSITY ,MICROBIAL ecology ,BACTERIAL cell surfaces ,WATER temperature ,SEASONAL physiological variations ,BAYS ,FISHES - Abstract
The article discusses the microbial uptake of carbon monoxide (CO) in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and its estuarine system in Canada. It mentions that CO oxidation is being carried out by a diversity of marine bacteria and mainly regulates the fate of marine organic carbon and CO air-sea exchange. It relates that there is a need for an extensive temporal and spatial mapping of microbial CO and to develop predictive tools to gauge its uptake rates. It affirms that microbial CO uptakes do vary seasonally due to factors including bacterial cell abundance and water temperature.
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- 2009
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