Micro-gels from tiny Arctic and Antarctic ice algae play an important role in polar ocean carbon budgets
Micro-gels from tiny Arctic and Antarctic ice algae play an important role in polar ocean carbon budgets
12.09.2013
Secretion of polysaccharides from the micro community living within the sea ice stick organism together and forms greater particles introducing a rapid transport of carbon to the seafloor. New research now makes it possible to forecast the importance for the global carbon budget of this transport.