Assimilation rate of bacterioplankton biomass by aplastidic protists in the North Atlantic Ocean
|
Heterotrophic protists |
1.5-5.0 |
bacterioplankton cells per protist cell per hour |
113497 |
MV Zubkov & GA Tarran... |
Estimated amount of DNA transduced by phages in ocean
|
Biosphere |
10^25 to 10^28 |
bp of DNA/year |
112574 |
Rohwer F, Edwards R.... |
Maximal Net Primary Productivity in mid-ocean gyres
|
Biosphere |
1000-1500 |
g Carbon/(m^2*year) |
102949 |
Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
Specific growth rate of Synechococcus in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean
|
Cyanobacteria Synechococcus spp. |
0.7 |
1/day |
113495 |
MV Zubkov, Faster growth... |
Specific growth rate of Prochlorococcus in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean
|
Prochlorococcus |
0.3-0.6 |
1/day |
113496 |
MV Zubkov, Faster growth... |
Percent of total ocean NPP contributed by eutrophic regions in the oceans
|
Biosphere |
<=18 |
% |
102953 |
Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |
Assimilation rate of bacterioplankton biomass by small-size algae in the North Atlantic Ocean
|
Small (~2um) photosynthetic protists |
0.12-0.38 |
bacterioplankton cells per protist cell per hour |
113498 |
MV Zubkov & GA Tarran... |
Net annual accumulation rate of biogenic silica (FB) in different ecosystems of the world ocean
|
Biosphere |
Table - link |
Tmol Si/year |
114461 |
Tréguer PJ, De La Rocha... |
Cytoplasmic pH over the range of ocean pH (7.8–8.4)
|
Diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii |
7.2 - 7.5 |
unitless |
116869 |
Hopkinson, B.M., 2014.... |
Best guess for distribution of bacterial mortality in the open ocean
|
Biosphere |
grazing by protists ~50%: lysis due to bacteriophage ~50% |
% |
115625 |
Young KD. The selective... |
The DMS concentrations and sea-to-air flux from the major ecological regions of the world ocean
|
Biosphere |
Table - link |
N/A |
107540 |
Andreae MO, Raemdonck... |
Concentration of heterotrophic protists in euphotic layer of the temperate North Atlantic Ocean
|
Heterotrophic protists |
510 (±370) |
cells/ml |
113500 |
MV Zubkov & GA Tarran... |
Estimated cumulative oceanic anthropogenic CO2 sink in 1994, for the ocean region
|
Biosphere |
118 (±19) |
PgC |
108707 |
Sabine CL et al., The... |
Quantities of the greenhouse gas CO2 that the ocean is able to absorb
|
Biosphere |
~37,000 |
Gt CO2 |
113986 |
Danovaro R et al., Marine... |
Fraction of light-stimulated leucine incorporation in the North Atlantic Ocean that Prochlorococcus is responsible for
|
Prochlorococcus |
>75 |
% |
110356 |
D. L. Kirchman, Microbial... |
Frequency of gene transfer in the environment (open ocean)
|
Bacteria Roseovarius nubinhibens |
0.0067-0.47 Table - link |
cfu^-1 |
105848 |
McDaniel LD, Young E... |
Fraction of bacteria in ocean surface waters that carry proteorhodopsin (depending on oceanic region and detection method)
|
bacteria |
15% to > 70% |
% |
111293 |
Kirchman DL, Hanson TE.... |
Fraction of cyanobacteria out of total ocean marine picoplankton in the upper 200 m
|
Biosphere |
~10 |
% |
112102 |
Flombaum P et al., Present... |
Contribution of metazooplankton to respiration in the ocean (highly variable, depending on the oceanic region, productivity, depth, and method of estimation)
|
Biosphere |
<1% - >50 |
% of respiration |
115387 |
del Giorgio PA, Duarte... |
Percent of the surface area in ocean supporting NPP greater than 500 grams of C/(m^2Xyear)
|
Biosphere |
1.7 |
Percent |
102951 |
Field CB, Behrenfeld MJ... |