BREMEN, May 26 (WNM/Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie/Fanni Aspetsberger) - Brown algae are important players in the global carbon cycle by fixing large amounts of carbon dioxide and thus extracting this greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Moreover, because microbial decomposition of dead brown algae is slower than that of other marine plants, carbon dioxide fixed by brown algae remains much longer in the sea. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, the MARUM ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...