MicrobiologyThe ISME JournalPeer-reviewed
Heterotrophic prokaryotes internal carbon recycling compensates mismatches between phytoplankton production and heterotrophic prokaryotic consumption
Falk Eigemann, Karen Tait, Ben Temperton, Ferdi L. Hellweger
The paper estimates carbon fluxes in microbial communities using mechanistic inference, finding that internal recycling by heterotrophic prokaryotes compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton production and consumption.