Marine microbes are the foundation of ocean food webs; they are the workhorses that convert carbon, nitrogen, and other essential nutrients into bioavailable forms for all other life in the oceans (1, 2). But only about 10% of these bacteria, archaea, viruses, protists, and fungi can be cultured in the lab—the vast majority must be sampled directly from the ocean (3). Since sampling is expensive and time consuming, research is limited on most ocean microbes. As a result, the water column locales of microbe-driven biogeochemical processes haven’t been thoroughly mapped.

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内部工作：海洋微生物群落3D地图的研究浮标[环境科学]

海洋微生物是海洋食物网的基础；它们是工作母机，其将碳，氮，并进入在海洋（所有其它生命形式的生物可利用其它必需营养物1，2）。但是这些细菌，古细菌，病毒，原生生物和真菌中只有约10％可以在实验室中进行培养-绝大多数必须直接从海洋中取样（3）。由于采样既昂贵又费时，因此对大多数海洋微生物的研究受到限制。结果，微生物驱动的生物地球化学过程的水柱位置尚未被彻底绘制。