All living organisms need energy to perform various life processes and the source of energy for all living organisms is food. It is available from different sources. There are two types of modes of ...

A size-structured ecosystem model was developed and fitted to an extensive set of observations of size-fractionated biomass, primary and heterotrophic bacterial production, respiration, particle flux, ...

For species with bicellular pollen, the attrition of pollen tubes is often greatest where the style narrows at the transition between stigmatic tissue and the transmitting tissue of the style. In this ...

Autotrophic microorganisms have the potential to efficiently convert CO 2 into a wide range of chemicals and biofuels, which is a promising sustainable avenue for future biotechnology. Natural ...

Quantifying the contribution of marine microorganisms to carbon and nitrogen cycles and their response to predicted ocean warming is one of the main challenges of microbial oceanography. Here we ...