Azam Farooq, Malfatti Francesca
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
Nat Rev Microbiol. 2007 Oct;5(10):782-91. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro1747.
Despite the impressive advances that have been made in assessing the diversity of marine microorganisms, the mechanisms that underlie the participation of microorganisms in marine food webs and biogeochemical cycles are poorly understood. Here, we stress the need to examine the biochemical interactions of microorganisms with ocean systems at the nanometre to millimetre scale--a scale that is relevant to microbial activities. The local impact of microorganisms on biogeochemical cycles must then be scaled up to make useful predictions of how marine ecosystems in the whole ocean might respond to global change. This approach to microbial oceanography is not only helpful, but is in fact indispensable.
尽管在评估海洋微生物多样性方面已经取得了令人瞩目的进展，但微生物参与海洋食物网和生物地球化学循环的潜在机制仍知之甚少。在此，我们强调需要在纳米到毫米尺度上研究微生物与海洋系统的生化相互作用——这一尺度与微生物活动相关。然后，必须将微生物对生物地球化学循环的局部影响进行放大，以便对整个海洋中的海洋生态系统如何应对全球变化做出有用的预测。这种微生物海洋学的方法不仅有帮助，而且实际上是不可或缺的。
