Aerosol nutrients and their biological influence on the northwest Pacific ocean (NWPO) and its Marginal seas

C Guo, Y Zhou, H Zhou, C Su, L Kong - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary With intensifying human activities in the past decades, East Asia has
recorded increasingly severe air pollution and become the second largest aerosol source on …

Phytoplankton dynamics and bloom formation in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean: Field studies in the Aegean, Levantine and Ionian seas

I Varkitzi, S Psarra, G Assimakopoulou… - Deep Sea Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study attempts to elucidate the dynamics of phytoplankton biomass (as Chl-a),
productivity, community structure and bloom formation in different regions of the oligotrophic …

[HTML][HTML] Airborne bacteria structure and chemical composition relationships in winter and spring PM10 samples over southeastern Italy

S Romano, S Becagli, F Lucarelli, G Rispoli… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Redundancy Discrimination Analysis (RDA) and Spearman correlation
coefficients were used to investigate relationships between airborne bacteria at the phylum …

A year in the life of the Eastern Mediterranean: Monthly dynamics of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in an ultra-oligotrophic sea

T Reich, T Ben-Ezra, N Belkin, A Tsemel… - Deep Sea Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) is a poorly studied ultra-oligotrophic marine
environment, dominated by small-size phyto-and bacterioplankton. Here, we describe the …

The effects of decomposing invasive jellyfish on biogeochemical fluxes and microbial dynamics in an ultraoligotrophic sea

T Guy-Haim, M Rubin-Blum, E Rahav… - Biogeosciences …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Over the past several decades, jellyfish blooms have intensified spatially and temporally,
affecting functions and services of ecosystems worldwide. At the demise of a bloom, an …

Direct detection of heterotrophic diazotrophs associated with planktonic aggregates

E Geisler, A Bogler, E Rahav, E Bar-Zeev - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
N2 fixation by planktonic heterotrophic diazotrophs is more wide spread than previously
thought, including environments considered “unfavorable” for diazotrophy. These …

Solubilities and deposition fluxes of atmospheric Fe and Cu over the Northwest Pacific and its marginal seas

T Yang, Y Chen, S Zhou, H Li, F Wang, Y Zhu - Atmospheric Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Atmospheric input is an important exogenous source of Fe and Cu to the surface ocean.
Here, we investigated temporal and spatial variations, solubilities, size distributions and …

Response of oligotrophic coastal microbial populations in the SE Mediterranean Sea to crude oil pollution; lessons from mesocosm studies

Y Shai, M Rubin-Blum, DL Angel… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropogenically-induced oil spills release large amounts of organic pollutants into the
marine environment. To date, little is known about the response of microbial populations …

Heterotrophic nitrogen fixation at the hyper-eutrophic Qishon River and Estuary System

E Geisler, A Bogler, E Bar-Zeev, E Rahav - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Planktonic heterotrophic diazotrophs (N2-fixers) are widely distributed in marine and
freshwater systems, yet limited information is available on their activity, especially in …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric gas-phase composition over the Indian Ocean

S Tegtmeier, C Marandino, Y Jia… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - acp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Indian Ocean is coupled to atmospheric dynamics and chemical composition
via several unique mechanisms, such as the seasonally varying monsoon circulation …