Global climate change (GCC) constitutes a complex challenge posing a serious threat to
biodiversity and ecosystems in the next decades. There are several recent studies dealing …

Dissolution of anthropogenic CO2 into the oceans results in ocean acidification (OA),
altering marine chemistry with consequences for primary, secondary, and tertiary food web …

Diatoms account for up to 40% of marine primary production, and require silicic acid to grow
and build their opal shell. On the physiological and ecological level, diatoms are thought to …

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a proposed method to counteract climate change by
increasing the alkalinity of the surface ocean and thus the chemical storage capacity of …

Primary production in the Southern Ocean is dominated by diatom‐rich phytoplankton
assemblages, whose individual physiological characteristics and community composition …

Abstract Changes in the temperature or salinity of ocean waters can affect marine organisms
at multiple trophic levels. Both environmental variables could have an impact on marine …

Thalassiosira hyalina and Nitzschia frigida are important members of Arctic pelagic and
sympagic (sea‐ice‐associated) diatom communities. We investigated the effects of light …

In the last decades, the North Sea has undergone intense environmental changes which
have led to regime shifts that affected all trophic levels. Since the 1970s, both increases and …

Abstract Global Climate Change could change physical parameters in oceans, such as
salinity and temperature. The impact of such changes in phytoplankton has not been well …

Diatoms are so important in ocean food-webs that any human induced changes in their
abundance could have major effects on the ecology of our seas. The large chain-forming …