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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...