Abstract Transparent Exopolymer Particles (TEP) have received considerable attention
since they were first described in the ocean more than 20 years ago. This is because of their …

Bacteria are now generally believed to adopt two main lifestyles: planktonic individuals, or
surface-attached biofilms. However, in recent years medical microbiologists started to stress …

Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) are ubiquitous in marine and freshwater
environments. For the past two decades, the distribution and ecological roles of these …

Significant amounts of oil accumulated at the sea surface and in a subsurface plume during
the Deepwater Horizon (DwH) spill in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) in 2010. A substantial …

The degradation of marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is an important control variable
in the global carbon cycle. For our understanding of the kinetics of organic matter cycling in …

The production and fate of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) have been investigated in
various oceanic regions (tropical, temperate, and polar), from the sea surface microlayer …

Three-dimensional hydrogels of organic polymers have been suggested to affect a variety of
processes in the ocean, including element cycling, microbial ecology, food-web dynamics …

Reservoirs act as carbon sinks when sedimentation of particulate organic carbon (POC)
exceeds CO2 and CH4 emissions. Here, we study the poorly explored process where …

Blooms of the marine dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum cause green seawater
discolorations affecting the recreational use and the tourism economy along southern …

Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) are an abundant class of suspended organic
particles, mainly formed by polysaccharides, which play important roles in biogeochemical …