The biodegradability of hydrothermally altered deep-sea dissolved organic matter

Christian Tobias Hansen, University of Oldenburg, ICBM, Oldenburg, Germany, Jutta Niggemann, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, Beatriz Elizabeth Noriega-Ortega, University of Oldenburg, ICBM-MPI Bridging Group for Marine Geochemistry, Oldenburg, Germany, Meinhard Simon, University of Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Biology of Geological Processes - Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Oldenburg, Germany, Bach Wolfgang, University of Bremen, Faculty of Geosciences, Bremen, Germany and Thorsten Dittmar, Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (ICBM), Oldenburg, Germany