Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is an important optically active substance in
aquatic environments and plays a key role in light attenuation and in the carbon, nitrogen …

The biodiversity and high productivity of coastal terrestrial and aquatic habitats are the
foundation for important benefits to human societies around the world. These globally …

Phytoplankton accessory pigments are commonly used to estimate phytoplankton size
classes, particularly during development and validation of biogeochemical models and …

The concept of phytoplankton functional types has emerged as a useful approach to
classifying phytoplankton and can be used to obtain a better understanding of ecological …

Phytoplankton size structure is an important indicator of the state of the pelagic ecosystem.
Stimulated by the paucity of in situ observations on size structure, and by the sampling …

Over the past decade, techniques have been presented to derive the community structure of
phytoplankton at synoptic scales using satellite ocean-color data. There is a growing …

To evaluate the performance of ocean-colour retrievals of total chlorophyll-a concentration
requires direct comparison with concomitant and co-located in situ data. For global …

Abstract The Red Sea is a semi-enclosed tropical marine ecosystem that stretches from the
Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba in the north, to the Gulf of Aden in the south. Despite its …

During the Norwegian young sea ICE expedition (N‐ICE2015) from January to June 2015
the pack ice in the Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard was studied during four drifts between 83° …

Phytoplankton biomass and size structure are recognized as key ecological indicators. With
the aim to quantify the relationship between these two ecological indicators in tropical …