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What do Fungi, Chameleons, and Humans All Have in Common? We’re all Heterotrophs

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues at unsuspecting prey, every organism carves out its own strategy to ...
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Nutrient and Light Availability Regulate the Relative Contribution of Autotrophs and Heterotrophs to Respiration in Freshwater Pelagic Ecosystems

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this study, two main hypotheses were addressed. (1) Bacteria contribute proportionally less than autotrophs to ecosystem respiration as ...
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A Deep-Sea Creature Is Pulling Carbon From the Atmosphere. Scientists Didn’t Know It Was There.

Although most dissolved inorganic carbon fixation occurs at the ocean’s surface, some of that fixation budget originates from the deep ocean. In a new study, scientists suggest that microbial ...
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An evidence-based framework for predicting the impact of differing autotroph-heterotroph thermal sensitivities on consumer–prey dynamics

Increased temperature accelerates vital rates, influencing microbial population and wider ecosystem dynamics, for example, the predicted increases in cyanobacterial blooms associated with global ...
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Reef Corals: Autotrophs or Heterotrophs?

Current issues are available on the Chicago Journals website: Read the latest issue.Originally published by the Marine Biological Laboratory, The Biological Bulletin seeks to disseminate novel ...