Microbial Ecology of the Dark Ocean above, at, and below the Seafloor

By B. Orcutt, J. Sylvan, N. Knab, K. Edwards. Microbiology and Molecular Reviews, 2011

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The biomass distribution on Earth (2018, background): “The two major habitats of microbes in the marine deep subsurface are subseafloor sediments and the oceanic crust (73, 74).”
High-Pressure Biochemistry and Biophysics (2013, background): “Additional microbes displaying modest degrees of high-pressure adaptation are represented by an anaerobic sulfate-reducing member of the genus Desulfovibrio and one Gram-positive member of genus Carnobacterium (e.g., see Table 7 in Orcutt et al. 2011 and Table 2 in Oger and Jebbar 2010).”
Microbial Surface Colonization and Biofilm Development in Marine Environments (2015, background): “Photosynthetic and chemolithoautotrophic CO2 fixation (102, 142–148), aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic energy conservation (149–151), seawater methane production and oxidation (143, 146, 147, 152), degradation of biopolymers and other organic matter (102, 117, 145, 153), and heterotrophic respiration”
Comparison of the Levels of Bacterial Diversity in Freshwater, Intertidal Wetland, and Marine Sediments by Using Millions of Illumina Tags (2012, background): “Our result and recent reports suggest that subdivision 6 (Gp6), Gp1, Gp3, Gp4, and Gp18 (from high to low confidence) are enriched in the freshwater environment while subdivisions Gp10, Gp22, Gp21, and Gp26 are more abundant in marine sediments (23).”