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link to open access article..

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2521235123

Figure 4:

Oxic CH4 production distribution and budget. (A) Oxic CH4 production rate as a function of [PO4]. The black line is our model-derived parameterization when optimized with 100% of the data, while the gray lines are optimized with random samples of 80% of the data. Red and green dots are measurements from seawater incubations (7) and single-species cultures (16), plotted as % inhibition of CH4 production relative to rates when PO4 is absent (right y-axis). The blue arrow shows the PO4 threshold for C-P lyase activity in a bacterial monoculture (35). (B) Depth-integrated oxic CH4 production rate, from optimization using 100% of the data. (C) Basin-integrated rates of oxic CH4 production and sea-air exchange. Bar centers from optimization using 100% of data, error bars are 1 SD from the optimizations using 80% of the data.

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Great, just what we needed

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