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Largest mapping of breathing ocean floor key to understanding global carbon cycle

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-10-30

Marine sediments play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle due to the oxygen consumption and CO2 respiration of the organisms that live in and on the ocean floor. To help predict the changing contribution of this respiration to the carbon cycle in a warming world, researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) and universities in Taiwan have compiled the largest open-access database available of the sediment community oxygen consumption and CO2 respiration.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-10-largest-ocean-floor-key-global.html