Fating Carbon in the South Pacific Ocean:

From Santa Fe Institute

Metabolic and Allometric Scaling Approaches to Understanding Variation in Marine Primary Productivity across Physical Regimes Daniel Muratore, SFI The subtropical, tropical, and equatorial Pacific Ocean encompass environments from the world's most productive fisheries to the largest and most nutrient-scarce contiguous habitats on Earth. Marine microorganisms are the unifying foundation of ecosystems across this entire spectrum of chemical and physical contexts. Yet marine microbial communitie...