The episodic hyperproduction of mucilage macroaggregates in the northern Adriatic Sea represents an important site of accumulation, transformation and microbial degradation of organic matter. The natural biogeochemical degradation sequences and laboratory based enzymatic hydrolysis revealed the simultaneous degradation of polysaccharides and proteins while lipids seem largely preserved. The mojority of carbohydrate and protein pools are potentially degradable while the great majority of lipids can be preserved in the water column and exported away or finally deposited on the seabed.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 2094415The text for students of the University of Primorska and University of Trieste, where the author teaches the Marine Biogeochemistry course, encompasses the biogeochemical evolution, compostion and function of atmosphere and hydropshere with sediments, carbon nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur, iron, manganese and mercury cyclings, fossil fuels and Sečovlje saltern as an example of microbial mats.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 23093287