Phytoplankton are microscopic protists that are ubiquitous in the sunlit global ocean. These
organisms form the base of the marine food web and are essential to biogeochemical …

Uncovering the drivers that shape biodiversity patterns is critical to understand fundamental
ecological and evolutionary processes, but also to assist biodiversity managers and …

Haptophyte microalgae are key contributors to microbial communities in many
environments. It has been proposed recently that members of this group would be virtually …

Diatoms form a diverse and abundant group of photosynthetic protists that are essential
players in marine ecosystems. However, the microevolutionary structure of their populations …

Planktonic communities are shaped by ocean currents and participate in multiple global
biogeochemical cycles. Unraveling how the functions of communities respond to strong …

Hot springs are tractable model systems in microbial ecology for investigating the
interactions of photosynthetic microbial biofilms. This is because they occur across broad …

Diatoms are a major component of marine phytoplankton and play a key role in global
elemental cycles and marine food webs. Their ecological success relies to their underlying …

Natural ecosystems persist in variable environments by virtue of a suite of traits that span
from the individual to the community, and from the ecological to the evolutionary scenarios …

This dissertation statistically investigated putative biotic and abiotic drivers of ecological
characteristics over the spatial scale of ocean basins and temporal scale of millennia to …

Ocean color remote sensing offers two decades-long time series of information on
phytoplankton abundance. However, determining the structure of the phytoplankton …