An oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) is characterized as an oxygen-deficient layer in the world's oceans. Typically found between 200 m to 1500 m deep below regions...
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The oxygen minimum zone (OMZ), sometimes referred to as the shadow zone, is the zone in which oxygen saturation in seawater in the ocean is at its lowest...
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Marine microorganisms (section Role of viruses)
Microbial oxidation of sulfur Sulfate-reducing microorganisms Microbially induced sedimentary structure Microbiology of oxygen minimum zones Oceanic carbon...
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Ocean (redirect from Oceans of the Earth)
very low oxygen due to long periods of isolation of the water from the atmosphere. These oxygen deficient areas, called oxygen minimum zones or hypoxic...
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can happen in anoxic habitats such as marine or lake sediments, oxygen minimum zones, anoxic water columns, rice paddies and soils. Some specific methanotrophs...
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demonstrated as a pronounced metabolism within the water column at the oxygen minimum zone. Microbes that perform this metabolism are successful in neutrophilic...
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Anoxic waters (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)
creature Ocean deoxygenation – Reduction of the oxygen content of the oceans Oxygen minimum zone – Zone in which oxygen saturation in seawater in the ocean...
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marine microorganisms capable of performing DNRA are most commonly found in environments low in O2, such as oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) in the water column...
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Stratosphere (category Atmosphere of Earth)
layer of the atmosphere of Earth, located above the troposphere and below the mesosphere. The stratosphere is composed of stratified temperature zones, with...
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Biogeochemical cycle (redirect from Cycling of substances)
as much as 25 to 50% of nitrogen loss from the ocean to the atmosphere in the so-called oxygen minimum zones or anoxic marine zones, driven by microbial...
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to oxidize nitrite also in oxygen minimum zone of the ocean. Depletion of oxygen in such zones leads to preference of anaerobic processes such as denitrification...
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Marine nitrogen fixation (section Oxygen levels)
PMID 33298448. Ito, Takamitsu; Deutsch, Curtis (2013). "Variability of the oxygen minimum zone in the tropical North Pacific during the late twentieth century"...
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Nitrification (section Microbiology)
Nitrospina-like species are major nitrite oxidizing bacteria in oxygen minimum zones". The ISME Journal. 13 (10): 2391–2402. Bibcode:2019ISMEJ..13.2391S...
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Anammox (category Environmental microbiology)
YY; Jetten, MSM (September 2012). "Mimicking the oxygen minimum zones: stimulating interaction of aerobic archaeal and anaerobic bacterial ammonia oxidizers...
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marine sediments, hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, sulfidic caves, oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), and stratified water columns. Microbial communities are structured...
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Diagnostic microbiology is the study of microbial identification. Since the discovery of the germ theory of disease, scientists have been finding ways...
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Lake ecosystem (section Zones)
ecosystems can be divided into zones. One common system divides lakes into three zones. The first, the littoral zone, is the shallow zone near the shore. This is...
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Microbial mat (category Microbiology)
it. There are two known variations of this scenario: The boundary between the oxygenated and oxygen-free zones of a mat would have moved up when photosynthesis...
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Water (redirect from Oxygen hydride)
that each of its molecules contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms, connected by covalent bonds. The hydrogen atoms are attached to the oxygen atom at...
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sediments. In this zone, dissolved oxygen is reduced, light is limited to long wavelengths (e.g., red and infrared) left-over by oxygenic phototrophs (e.g...
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Thioploca (section Oxygen uptake and resistance)
resistant to higher oxygen concentrations, hence they mostly populate oxygen minimum zones (OMZs). Thioploca spp. has shown two types of response to sulphide...
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Phytoplankton microbiome (category Microbiology)
been shown to inhibit nitrification by microbes, while increasing oxygen minimum zones (OMZs) are associated with denitrification driven by microbial processes...
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L.A. Levin; J.I. Cañete (October 2004). "Macrobenthic zonation caused by the oxygen minimum zone on the shelf and slope off central Chile". Deep-Sea Research...
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All living cells produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a byproduct of metabolism. ROS are reduced oxygen intermediates that include the superoxide...
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ocean, but the early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen. Much of Earth was molten because of frequent collisions with other bodies which led to extreme...
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Bess Ward (category Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology)
in oxygen, called oxygen deficient zones (ODZs), are important areas for nitrogen cycling yet only make up about 0.1-0.2% of the total volume of the...
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that oxygen doesn't interfere with the oxygen-sensitive enzyme complex responsible for nitrogen fixation, since these enzymes are sensitive to oxygen. Oxygen...
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Harmful algal bloom (redirect from Economic impact of harmful algal blooms)
up more of the oxygen, generating a "dead zone" which can cause fish die-offs. When these zones cover a large area for an extended period of time, neither...
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Candidatus Scalindua (category Environmental microbiology)
microdiversity study of anammox bacteria reveals a novel Candidatus Scalindua phylotype in marine oxygen minimum zones". Environmental Microbiology. 10 (11): 3106–3119...
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