BACKGROUND Marine ecosystems are composed of a diverse array of life forms, the
majority of which are unicellular—archaea, bacteria, and eukaryotes. The power of these …

Abstract Changes in marine plankton communities driven by environmental variability
impact the marine food web and global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and other …

The traditional view of the planktonic food web describes consumption of inorganic nutrients
by photoautotrophic phytoplankton, which in turn supports zooplankton and ultimately higher …

This concise, readable introduction to limnology (the science of investigating the structure
and function of inland waters), places the subject in the context of modern ecology. Unlike …

A concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of standing waters (lakes and
ponds). As with other books in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in this book is on …

Historically most harmful algal species (HAS) have been thought to be strictly phototrophic.
Mixotrophy, the use of phototrophy and heterotrophy in combination, has been emphasized …

There is increasing awareness that many terrestrial and aquatic organisms are not strictly
heterotrophic or autotrophic but rather mixotrophic. Mixotrophy is an intermediate nutritional …

Oligotrophic subtropical gyres are the largest oceanic ecosystems, covering> 40% of the
Earth's surface. Unicellular cyanobacteria and the smallest algae (plastidic protists) …

Planktonic algae< 5 μm in size are major fixers of inorganic carbon in the ocean. They
dominate phytoplankton biomass in post-bloom, stratified oceanic temperate waters …

Marine picocyanobacteria of the Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus genera have been
longtime considered as autotrophic organisms. However, compelling evidence published …