Phytoplankton in the Tara Ocean

JJ Pierella Karlusich, FM Ibarbalz… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthesis evolved in the ocean more than 2 billion years ago and is now performed by
a wide range of evolutionarily distinct organisms, including both prokaryotes and …

Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology

S Sunagawa, SG Acinas, P Bork, C Bowler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A planetary-scale understanding of the ocean ecosystem, particularly in light of climate
change, is crucial. Here, we review the work of Tara Oceans, an international …

Tara Oceans studies plankton at planetary scale

P Bork, C Bowler, C de Vargas, G Gorsky, E Karsenti… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …

Diversity and ecology of eukaryotic marine phytoplankton

F Not, R Siano, WHCF Kooistra, N Simon… - Advances in botanical …, 2012 - Elsevier
Marine phytoplankton, the photosynthetic microorganisms drifting in the illuminated waters
of our planet, are extremely diverse, being distributed across major eukaryotic lineages …

[PDF][PDF] Global trends in marine plankton diversity across kingdoms of life

FM Ibarbalz, N Henry, MC Brandão, S Martini… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of
marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers …

Global drivers of eukaryotic plankton biogeography in the sunlit ocean

G Sommeria-Klein, R Watteaux, FM Ibarbalz… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Eukaryotic plankton are a core component of marine ecosystems with exceptional taxonomic
and ecological diversity, yet how their ecology interacts with the environment to drive global …

Global relationship between phytoplankton diversity and productivity in the ocean

SM Vallina, MJ Follows, S Dutkiewicz… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The shape of the productivity–diversity relationship (PDR) for marine phytoplankton has
been suggested to be unimodal, that is, diversity peaking at intermediate levels of …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity and evolution of marine phytoplankton

N Simon, AL Cras, E Foulon, R Lemée - Comptes rendus biologies, 2009 - Elsevier
Marine phytoplankton organisms account for more than 45% of the photosynthetic net
primary production on Earth. They are distributed across many of the major clades of the tree …

Increasing importance of small phytoplankton in a warmer ocean

XAG Morán, Á LÓPEZ‐URRUTIA… - Global Change …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The macroecological relationships among marine phytoplankton total cell density,
community size structure and temperature have lacked a theoretical explanation. The tiniest …

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

C De Vargas, S Audic, N Henry, J Decelle, F Mahé… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …