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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Macrofaunal control of microbial community structure in continental margin sediments.

Longhui Deng, Damian Bölsterli, Erik Kristensen, Christof Meile, Chih-Chieh Su, Stefano Michele Bernasconi, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Clemens Glombitza, Lorenzo Lagostina, Xingguo Han and 3 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Longhui DengInstitute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; longhui.deng@usys.ethz.ch mark.lever@usys.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-5914-9833
Damian BölsterliInstitute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Erik KristensenDepartment of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-7259-0132
Christof MeileDepartment of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.ORCID 0000-0002-0825-4596
Chih-Chieh SuInstitute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei 106, Taiwan.
Stefano Michele BernasconiDepartment of Earth Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7672-8856
Marit-Solveig SeidenkrantzDepartment of Geoscience, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-1973-5969
Clemens GlombitzaInstitute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Lorenzo LagostinaInstitute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Xingguo HanInstitute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Bo Barker JørgensenCenter for Geomicrobiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Hans RøyCenter for Geomicrobiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
Mark Alexander LeverInstitute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland; longhui.deng@usys.ethz.ch mark.lever@usys.ethz.ch.ORCID 0000-0002-2046-8028
ETH Zurich · CHAarhus University · DKBoard of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology · CHNational Taiwan University · TWUniversity of Georgia · USUniversity of Southern Denmark · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Through a process called "bioturbation," burrowing macrofauna have altered the seafloor habitat and modified global carbon cycling since the Cambrian. However, the impact of macrofauna on the community structure of microorganisms is poorly understood. Here, we show that microbial communities across bioturbated, but geochemically and sedimentologically divergent, continental margin sites are highly similar but differ clearly from those in nonbioturbated surface and underlying subsurface sediments. Solid- and solute-phase geochemical analyses combined with modeled bioturbation activities reveal that dissolved O

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ArchaeaBacteriaBiodiversityCarbonGeologic SedimentsMicrobiotaNitrogenOxygenPhylogenySeawaterCarbonNitrogenOxygenbioturbationburrow ventilationorganic carbon sourcesparticle reworkingredox state

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PMCPMC7376573
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