Contribution of dark inorganic carbon fixation to bacterial carbon demand in the oligotrophic Southeastern Mediterranean Sea

Reich, Tom; Belkin, Natalia; Sisma-Ventura, Guy; Hauzer, Hagar; Rubin-Blum, Maxim; Berman-Frank, Ilana; Rahav, Eyal

doi:10.5194/os-21-3055-2025

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Contribution of dark inorganic carbon fixation to bacterial carbon demand in the oligotrophic Southeastern Mediterranean Sea

Tom Reich, Natalia Belkin, Guy Sisma-Ventura, Hagar Hauzer, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Ilana Berman-Frank, and Eyal Rahav

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