Classical definitions of syntrophy focus on a process, performed through metabolic
interaction between dependent microbial partners, such as the degradation of complex …

Benthic O2 availability regulates many important biogeochemical processes and has crucial
implications for the biology and ecology of benthic communities. Further, the benthic O2 …

Sedimentary habitats cover most of the ocean bottom and therefore constitute the largest
single ecosystem on Earth in spatial coverage. The benthic ecosystem contributes to human …

Meiobenthology is the science of the tiny animals that live in huge numbers in all aquatic
sediments. This fully revised and enlarged second edition emphasizes new discoveries and …

The sandy sediments that blanket the inner shelf are situated in a zone where nutrient input
from land and strong mixing produce maximum primary production and tight coupling …

The abyssal seafloor covers more than 50% of the Earth and is postulated to be both a
reservoir of biodiversity and a source of important ecosystem services. We show that …

The use of biomarkers in combination with stable isotope analysis is a new approach in
microbial ecology and a number of papers on a variety of subjects have appeared. We will …

Understanding the processes influencing the sources and fate of organic matter (OM) in
estuaries is important for quantifying the contributions of carbon from land and rivers to the …

Stable isotopes have been used extensively to study food-web functioning, that is, the flow of
energy and matter among organisms. Traditional food-web studies are based on the natural …

Understanding matter circulation in the biosphere constitutes one of the fundamental
research objectives for ecologists. Stocks of materials, their distribution, and their fluxes …