Sentences with phrase «so microbial activity»
«The temperature is still around 0 (Celsius), so microbial activity continues to take place, producing carbon and methane, but it's trapped beneath the surface ice.
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Current methane fluxes recorded in the water column from around these methane hotspots are > 1000x those expected from the observed atmospheric anomolies, so considerable methanotrophic activity could already be activated, making irregularities of microbial consumption potentially even capable of such a release on its own.
Phytoplankton prefer to consume nitrate with lighter oxygen and nitrogen isotopes, so they leave behind heavier isotopes; measuring these can reveal microbial activity in the environment.