Towards sustainable diatom biorefinery: Recent trends in cultivation and applications

R Dhanker, A Saxena, A Tiwari, PK Singh… - Bioresource …, 2024 - Elsevier
Diatoms, with their complex cellular architecture, have been recognized as a source of
limitless potential. These microbes are common in freshwater and marine habitats and are …

Planktonic food web structure and trophic transfer efficiency along a productivity gradient in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean

L Armengol, A Calbet, G Franchy… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Oligotrophic and productive areas of the ocean differ in plankton community composition
and biomass transfer efficiency. Here, we describe the plankton community along a …

Re-shaping marine plankton communities: Effects of diatom oxylipins on copepods and beyond

E Russo, A Ianora, Y Carotenuto - Marine Biology, 2019 - Springer
Diatoms, ubiquitous primary producers in marine systems, synthesize oxylipins, which
impair copepod fitness through a maternal effect. While oxylipins do not directly affect the …

Top-down control of planktonic ciliates by microcrustacean predators is stronger in lakes than in the ocean

X Lu, T Weisse - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Planktonic ciliates are major components of pelagic food webs in both marine and
freshwaters. Their population dynamics are controlled 'bottom-up'by prey availability and 'top …

Diatom‐produced allelochemicals trigger trophic cascades in the planktonic food web

G Franzè, JJ Pierson, DK Stoecker… - Limnology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Diatoms produce a series of cytotoxic secondary metabolites such as polyunsaturated
aldehydes (PUA) in response to cell injury or stress. However, little information exists on the …

Hydrodynamics structure plankton communities and interactions in a freshwater tidal estuary

AP Smits, LC Loken… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Drivers of phytoplankton and zooplankton dynamics vary spatially and temporally in
estuaries due to variation in hydrodynamic exchange and residence time, complicating …

Effect of ocean acidification on the nutritional quality of marine phytoplankton for copepod reproduction

MT Meyers, WP Cochlan, EJ Carpenter, WJ Kimmerer - PLoS One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Phytoplankton are the oceans' principal source of polyunsaturated fatty acids that support
the growth and reproduction of consumers such as copepods. Previous studies have …

Ocean acidification causes mortality in the medusa stage of the cubozoan Carybdea xaymacana

PJC Chuard, MD Johnson, F Guichard - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Ocean pH is decreasing due to anthropogenic activities, and the consequences of this
acidification on marine fauna and ecosystems are the subject of an increasing number of …

The biological carbon pump, diel vertical migration, and carbon dioxide removal

S Hernández-León - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Carbon dioxide is increasing in the atmosphere promoting the faster environmental change
of the Earth's recent history. Several marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) technologies …

Diel, seasonal, and interannual patterns in mesozooplankton abundance in the Sargasso Sea

JA Ivory, DK Steinberg, RJ Latour - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Temporal changes in mesozooplankton abundance affect planktonic food web interactions
and biogeochemistry. We enumerated mesozooplankton from monthly day and night tows in …