{"id":313182,"date":"2018-04-20T13:04:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=313182"},"modified":"2018-07-16T13:29:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T17:29:35","slug":"tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny microenvironments hold clues to ocean nitrogen cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nitrogen is essential to marine life and cycles throughout the ocean in a delicately balanced system. Living organisms\u2014especially marine plants called phytoplankton\u2014require nitrogen in processes such as photosynthesis. In turn, phytoplankton growth takes up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and helps regulate global climate. The nitrogen cycle is a critical part of the earth&#8217;s balance.<\/p>\n<p>According to new research by Thomas Weber, an assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/ees\/\">Earth and environmental sciences<\/a> at the University of Rochester, small microenvironments in the deep ocean may hold key clues to the global cycling of nitrogen in seawater.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-018-0081-0?error=cookies_not_supported&amp;code=9b66553e-6b5f-4d7d-bc53-90841264543e\"><em>Nature Geoscience<\/em><\/a>, Weber and his co-author Daniele Bianchi, an assistant professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UCLA, show that small microbes that remove nitrogen from the water exist in these microenvironments and are more widespread than previously thought. Using this data, they developed a computer model that changes the way we think about the marine nitrogen cycle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe previous understanding of the nitrogen cycle was that nitrogen was lost from the ocean only in three regions where oxygen is scarce. If we wanted to predict how the nitrogen cycle would respond to climate change, all we needed to do was predict how these three low oxygen regions would expand or contract,\u201d Weber says. \u201cOur study changes that picture by showing that nitrogen loss is actually happening over much larger regions, and we need to think about how the ocean as a whole is changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Most marine organisms \u201cbreathe,\u201d or respire, using oxygen. When oxygen is not present in seawater, microbes instead respire using other compounds like nitrate, a form of nitrogen. \u201cThis has the net effect of removing the nitrogen from the ocean,\u201d Weber says.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_313202\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313202\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-313202 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2669_NitrogenBudget_FINALtogether-1024x516.jpg\" alt=\"two side-by-side illustrations of the nitrogen cycle in oxic ocean water and in anoxic ocean water\" width=\"1024\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2669_NitrogenBudget_FINALtogether-1024x516.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2669_NitrogenBudget_FINALtogether-630x318.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2669_NitrogenBudget_FINALtogether-768x387.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-313202\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>In the nitrogen cycle, phytoplankton and other marine plants turn nitrate (NO3) into organic nitrogen during photosynthesis. The organic nitrogen sinks into the deep ocean, where microbes &#8220;eat&#8221; the organic nitrogen and use oxygen to respire and turn the nitrogen into nitrate. Ocean currents cycle the nitrate back to the surface ocean and nitrogen is neither lost nor gained (left panel). When oxygen runs out however, some organisms respire using nitrate instead of oxygen, converting the nitrate back into nitrogen gas, driving it into the atmosphere and removing it from the oceans. (University of Rochester illustration \/ Michael Osadciw)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researchers previously believed anaerobic microbes\u2014small microorganisms and bacteria that do not need oxygen to respire\u2014were only found in pockets of the ocean with exceptionally low oxygen levels; particularly, three regions known as \u201cdead zones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weber and Bianchi have developed a computer model that takes into account new genetic data gathered from ocean microbes. The data indicates that anaerobic microbes exist not only in areas of unoxygenated water, but somehow thrive in areas of the ocean where there is oxygen. Nitrogen, therefore, may be lost across much of the ocean, not just in areas where oxygen is scarce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the biggest revolutions in oceanography in recent years has been the genomic revolution,\u201d Weber says. \u201cOceanographers have been able to measure all of the genes present in seawater.\u201d One of their discoveries was that the genes allowing anaerobic respiration are not just found in the three regions; the genes have been found much more widespread throughout the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever oxygen is available, there should not be organisms that respire anaerobically, Weber says. \u201cThey should be outcompeted by things that use oxygen, because that&#8217;s a much more efficient way to respire.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_313242\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313242\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-313242 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map-630x617.jpg\" alt=\"map showing the oxygen levels in oceans around the world, with the three lowest levels highlighted in deep blue\" width=\"630\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map-630x617.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map-768x752.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map-1024x1002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anox_map.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-313242\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>There are three regions in the ocean with exceptionally low oxygen levels; two off the coast of the Americas, just north and south of the equator (numbers 1 and 2) and one in the Arabian Sea (number 3). These areas are known as \u201cdead zones\u201d because only anaerobic microbes can survive here. (Thomas Weber \/ University of Rochester)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How then, do these anaerobic organisms survive in areas where oxygen is present?<\/p>\n<p>Weber and Bianchi found that small \u201cmicroenvironments\u201d depleted of oxygen exist all over the deep ocean in organic-rich \u201cmarine snow\u201d\u2014particles of organic matter, such as dead plankton cells and zooplankton feces, stuck together. Microbes gain energy by eating the organic matter and using oxygen to respire. If the respiration is intense enough inside the particles, all the oxygen can run out and the microbes will switch to respire using compounds besides oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe suggest that anaerobic microbes may thrive in vast swaths of the oxygenated ocean, within sinking organic \u2018marine snow,\u2019\u201d Bianchi says. \u201cThis changes the way we think of the nitrogen cycle and, more generally, anaerobic metabolism in the ocean, and suggests that both could respond to climate change in ways that challenge our current understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Global warming causes ocean temperatures to rise, resulting in an increased loss of oxygen, which can then affect the nitrogen budget across the globe. When humans perturb one part of the system, it can have unexpected effects. But computer models can help better predict these consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOcean warming is occurring because of human carbon dioxide emissions, which warm the earth as a whole,\u201d Weber says. \u201cIndirectly, this alters the oxygen and nitrogen content of the ocean. Eventually marine phytoplankton growth and their ability to take up carbon dioxide is impacted, which then feeds back on climate change. Our new work and other modeling efforts will help us better plan for these consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Rochester study shows that nitrogen-feeding organisms exist all over the deep ocean, and not just in large oxygen-depleted &#8220;dead zones,&#8221; changing the way we think about the delicate nitrogen cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":313612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[18852,29502,18572,16072,30322],"class_list":["post-313182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-department-of-earth-and-environmental-sciences","tag-featured-post-side","tag-research-finding","tag-school-of-arts-and-sciences","tag-thomas-weber"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tiny microenvironments hold clues to ocean nitrogen cycle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new Rochester study shows that small microenvironments in the deep ocean may hold key clues to the global nitrogen cycle in seawater\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tiny microenvironments hold clues to ocean nitrogen cycle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new Rochester study shows that small microenvironments in the deep ocean may hold key clues to the global nitrogen cycle in seawater\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-20T17:04:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-16T17:29:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/fea-ocean-nitrogen-cycle.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lindsey Valich\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lindsey Valich\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lindsey Valich\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/fcd7d29a5b8e855924bf73b764dcd827\"},\"headline\":\"Tiny microenvironments hold clues to ocean nitrogen cycle\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-04-20T17:04:24+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-07-16T17:29:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":906,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/tiny-microenvironments-in-the-ocean-hold-key-clues-to-global-nitrogen-cycle-313182\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.rochester.edu\\\/newscenter\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/04\\\/fea-ocean-nitrogen-cycle.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences\",\"featured-post-side\",\"research finding\",\"School of Arts and Sciences\",\"Thomas Weber\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Science &amp; 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