Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Redox-informed models of global biogeochemical cycles

  • Emily J. Zakem,
  • Martin F. Polz,
  • Michael J. Follows

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19454-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Marine microbial activities fuel biogeochemical cycles that impact the climate, but global models do not account for the myriad physiological processes that microbes perform. Here the authors argue for a model framework that reinterprets the ocean as physics coupled to biologically-driven redox chemistry.