Cell size as driver and sentinel of phytoplankton community structure and functioning

H Hillebrand, E Acevedo‐Trejos, SD Moorthi… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Body size is a decisive functional trait in many organisms, especially for phytoplankton,
which span several orders of magnitude in cell volume. Therefore, the analysis of size as a …

Benefits, costs and taxonomic distribution of marine phytoplankton body size

U Sommer, E Charalampous… - Journal of Plankton …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phytoplankton cell or colony sizes range from< 1 µm to several cm, ie 4–5 orders of
magnitude in linear dimensions, which is roughly equivalent to the log-size span within …

Marine phytoplankton functional types exhibit diverse responses to thermal change

SI Anderson, AD Barton, S Clayton… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Marine phytoplankton generate half of global primary production, making them essential to
ecosystem functioning and biogeochemical cycling. Though phytoplankton are …

Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity

S Dutkiewicz, P Cermeno, O Jahn, MJ Follows… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Biodiversity of phytoplankton is important for ecosystem stability and marine
biogeochemistry. However, the large-scale patterns of diversity are not well understood and …

Linking species traits and demography to explain complex temperature responses across levels of organization

DJ Wieczynski, P Singla, A Doan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Microbial communities regulate ecosystem responses to climate change. However,
predicting these responses is challenging because of complex interactions among …

Temperature‐and size‐scaling of phytoplankton population growth rates: Reconciling the Eppley curve and the metabolic theory of ecology

CT Kremer, MK Thomas… - Limnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Quantifying how environmental factors control the growth of phytoplankton communities is
essential for building a mechanistic understanding of global biogeochemical cycles and …

Is there a difference of temperature sensitivity between marine phytoplankton and heterotrophs?

B Chen, EA Laws - Limnology and Oceanography, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The temperature sensitivity of phytoplankton growth rates, parameterized as the activation
energy (Ea) in the Boltzmann‐Arrhenius equation, is critical to determining how global …

Quantifying the temperature dependence of growth rate in marine phytoplankton within and across species

S Barton, G Yvon‐Durocher - Limnology and Oceanography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Models of marine biogeochemistry capture the effects of temperature on
phytoplankton growth via the monotonic, exponential Eppley coefficient, without considering …

The temperature dependence of phytoplankton stoichiometry: investigating the roles of species sorting and local adaptation

G Yvon-Durocher, CE Schaum, M Trimmer - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The elemental composition of phytoplankton (C: N: P stoichiometry) is a critical factor
regulating nutrient cycling, primary production and energy transfer through planktonic food …

The size dependence of phytoplankton growth rates: a trade-off between nutrient uptake and metabolism

BA Ward, E Marañón, B Sauterey… - The American …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Rates of metabolism and population growth are often assumed to decrease universally with
increasing organism size. Recent observations have shown, however, that maximum …