Fig. 7. Relationships between different microbial processes occurring in surface deep-sea sediments.
Reported are the relationship between total heterotrophic C production and (A) chemoautotrophic C production in surface deep-sea sediments (equations of the line of best fit, y = 0.011 + 0.019x7.67; R2 = 0.918; n = 18; P < 0.01) and (B) the amount of C released by viral lysis of host cells (equations of the line of best fit, y = 0.0988e1.58x; R2 = 0.831; n = 18; P < 0.01).