First Institute of Oceanography

Soil microbial community structure and assembly are more strongly associated with soil background nitrogen content than by short-term nitrogen addition in a salt marsh

Soil microbes drive nutrient cycling, and microbial community composition and assembly are often shaped by plant succession and environmental heterogeneity. Nitrogen (N) is a vital nutrient for microorganisms, yet it remains unclear whether microbial responses to elevated N input...

Will work for sardines: 20 years of animal-borne ocean observing by Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tagging Facility

The world’s ocean stores ~90% of the excess heat generated by anthropogenic global warming, making sustained ocean observations essential for understanding physical, biological and climate processes. Here, we describe how the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Taggi...

Wintertime organic carbon export provides a potential food source for zooplankton in the High Arctic

Abstract Pulsed particulate organic carbon export plays a vital role in sustaining Arctic marine ecosystems and the biological pump. Wintertime particulate organic carbon export in ice-covered Arctic waters is generally considered negligible due to light-limited local primary pro...

Electrical conductivity models for bubble-bearing marine fine-grained sediments

Abstract Large sediment-displacing bubbles are widespread in seafloors and typically found in shallow and fine-grained sediments. These bubbles have significant environmental and engineering impacts. Acoustic methods are the most widely used geophysical investigation method for b...