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Investigations in my lab continue to focus on the role of marine snow in the ecology of the sea. Marine snow is a generic term for large, amorphous aggregates of detritus, algae, bacteria, fecal matter and debris that form in the upper ocean and sediment to the seafloor. Marine snow provides the major source of food and carbon to ocean sediments. We are presently investigating the nature of the communities that inhabit marine snow, the fate and timing of snow degradation, and sources of marine snow, including larvacean houses, feeding webs, diatom bloom aggregation, and the interactions of zooplankton with marine snow. In 1993 we discovered the existence of an abundant new particle pool in the ocean consisting of transparent gel-like particles formed from the polysaccharide exudates of phytoplankton and other microbes. We have since shown that TEP are essential for the aggregation of diatom blooms and the formation of marine snow and that they affect the carbon: nitrogen ratio of sinking matter, serve as food for zooplankton, and form microhabitats and refuges for bacteria. TEP provide microscale physical structure to an otherwise fluid habitat.
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Handbook of Methods in Aquatic Microbial Ecologypp.531-536, (2018)
Marine Particles: Analysis and CharacterizationGeophysical Monograph Seriespp.43-46, (2013)
Elizabeth A McCliment,Craig E Nelson,Craig A Carlson,Alice L Alldredge,Jan Witting,Linda A Amaral-Zettler
A. L. Alldredge, J. M. King
Coral Reefsno. 4 (2009): 895-908
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