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    Long-term organic carbon preservation enhanced by iron and manganese

    The balance between degradation and preservation of sedimentary organic carbon (OC) is important for global carbon and oxygen cycles1. The relative importance of different mechanisms and environmental conditions ...

    Oliver W. Moore, Lisa Curti, Clare Woulds, James A. Bradley, Peyman Babakhani in Nature (2023)

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    Hydrothermal activity, functional diversity and chemoautotrophy are major drivers of seafloor carbon cycling

    Hydrothermal vents are highly dynamic ecosystems and are unusually energy rich in the deep-sea. In situ hydrothermal-based productivity combined with sinking photosynthetic organic matter in a soft-sediment setti...

    James B. Bell, Clare Woulds, Dick van Oevelen in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    The long-term fate of permafrost peatlands under rapid climate warming

    Permafrost peatlands contain globally important amounts of soil organic carbon, owing to cold conditions which suppress anaerobic decomposition. However, climate warming and permafrost thaw threaten the stabil...

    Graeme T. Swindles, Paul J. Morris, Donal Mullan, Elizabeth J. Watson in Scientific Reports (2015)