Diatoms are often a major food source for zooplankton and contribute significantly to vertical
POC flux through sinking of dead cells, aggregates and zooplankton fecal pellets. The silica …

Climate change is affecting the hydrodynamics of the world's oceans. How these changes
will influence the productivity, distribution and abundance of phytoplankton communities is …

To understand the role of food quality in planktonic trophic interactions and marine copepod
reproduction, we conducted laboratory experiments to investigate the effect of different prey …

Cryptophyte algae are globally distributed photosynthetic flagellates found in freshwater,
estuarine, and neritic ecosystems. While cryptophytes can be highly abundant and are …

We characterized the community composition of phytoplankton in the western subarctic
Pacific from the pre-bloom to the decline phase of the spring bloom with special reference to …

The size-fractionated phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing are crucial for the
temporal change of community size structure, regulating not only trophic transfer but also the …

Many migratory fishes reproduce and recruit around the Kuroshio, and their survival of early
life stages is supported by mesozooplankton. Mesozooplankton standing stocks and …

Detecting the marine phytoplankton by the means of absorption or fluorescence spectra
were successfully deployed in the past decades, however, the differentiation are mainly …

Mesozooplankton are key components in the marine environment, linking the microbial food
web and the classic food chain. Yet uncertainties remain on how mesozooplankton mediate …

Many diatoms, a major class of unicellular algae contributing to over 45% of oceanic primary
production, are known to induce deleterious effects on reproductive processes in crustacean …