How does the Great Barrier Reef get its nitrogen fix?

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When Captain James Cook and the botanist Sir Joseph Banks navigated Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in the 1770s they described blooms of “sea sawdust” we now know to be the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium. Similarly, in 2014, a UTS-led research voyage found the species in abundance, but with the benefit of new molecular biological techniques, they […]

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June 15, 2017 at 07:57AM