Carbon cycling
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We are collaborating with staff at Oceanlab (Aberdeen University) in a number of projects, mainly involved with carbon cycling, covering both estuaries and the deep sea. This work is fundamental as deep sea sediments cover over half of the earths surface yet, for reasons such as accessibility, incredibly little is known about them including basic information such as mineralisation rates of organic C substrates.
Related publications
- Food quality affects carbon cycling in the deep sea. - Mayor, D.J.; Thornton, B.; Witte, U.; Hay, S.Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences (BES), Research Day, University of Aberdeen, 8th December 2008.
- Degradation of organic matter by a sub-arctic deep sea community: a pulse-chase experiment with 13C-labelled algae. - Gontikaki, E.; Mayor, D.J.; Narayanaswamy, B.E.; Thornton, B.; Witte, U. - American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Nice, 25-30 January 2009.
- Food quality affects carbon cycling in the deep sea. - Mayor, D.J.; Thornton, B.; Witte, U.; Hay, S. - Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Users Group Meeting, University of Glasgow, 14-15 January 2009.
- Food quality affects carbon cycling in deep sea sediments. - Mayor, D.J.; Thornton, B.; Hay, S.; Witte, U.- British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 8-10 September 2009.
- Assimilation and turnover of essential substrates in a keystone organism, Calanus. - Mayor, D.J.; Cook, K.; Walsham, P.; Thornton, B.; Anderson, T.R. - British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, University of Hertfordshire, UK, 8-10 September 2009.
- Carbon cycling in the deep sea. - Mayor, D.; Thornton, B.; Hay, S.; Witte, U. - Seminar presented to Fisheries Research Services, Marine Scotland, Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, June 2009.
- Absorption, fractionation and turnover of substrates in Calnus spp. - Mayor, D.J.; Cook, K.; Thornton, B.; Walsham, P.; Witte, U.; Zuur, A.; Anderson, A. - Functional Ecology. (in preparation)
- Utilisation of different carbon sources in a shallow tidal estuary identified through the use of stable isotopes E. Zetsche, B. Thornton, A. Midwood and U. Witte
- Food quality affects carbon cycling in the deep sea. Mayor, D.J.; Thornton, B.; Witte, U.; Hay, S
- Deep-sea Benthic community response to a simulated sedimentation event off the Scottish Continental margin Gontikaki, E.; Mayor, D.J.; Narayanaswamy, B.E.; Thornton, B.; Witte, U.
Who is working in this area?
This research was funded by the Scottish Government RESAS Strategic Research 2011-2016.
