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The little guys who make the ocean's nitrogen cycle go round.

The little guys who make the ocean's nitrogen cycle go round.
The little guys who make the ocean's nitrogen cycle go round.
The little guys  who make the ocean's nitrogen cycle go round.
The little guys  who make the ocean's nitrogen cycle go round.
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Cook, John E.
The little guys who make the ocean's nitrogen cycle go round.
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05/09/2008
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Oceanus magazine, vol. 47 no. 1, December 2008, page 37, caption:
The marine bacteria Trichodesmium come in a variety of species (above). At left, a slick of Trichodesmium floats on the ocean surface in the western South Pacific in January 2007. Trichodesmium are essential cogs in the ecological machinery that cycles chemicals through the oceans--chemicals that sustain life and influence global climate (below).
Image by Jack Cook and Dan Ohnemus
© Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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