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Distribution and Metabolic Activities of Marine Microbes in Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Stressors
Summary
This review examines how natural stressors such as temperature warming and acidification, combined with anthropogenic pressures like biodiversity loss and water quality degradation, affect the distribution and metabolic activities of marine microbial communities. Researchers synthesized evidence showing that microbial responses to combined stressors are often non-additive and context-dependent, with implications for biogeochemical cycling in changing ocean environments.
As a consequence of climate change and increased human pressure, aquatic ecosystems are experiencing natural and anthropogenic stressors and events such as temperature warming, acidification, biodiversity loss, and degraded water quality [...]
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