Mixoplankton and mixotrophy: future research priorities

NC Millette, RJ Gast, JY Luo, HV Moeller… - Journal of Plankton …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Phago-mixotrophy, the combination of photoautotrophy and phagotrophy in mixoplankton,
organisms that can combine both trophic strategies, have gained increasing attention over …

Stable isotope tracers: Enriching our perspectives and questions on sources, fates, rates, and pathways of major elements in aquatic systems

PM Glibert, JJ Middelburg… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope applications have evolved from simple characterizations of isotope
composition in organisms and organic matter, to highly complex methodologies on scales …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane inlet mass spectrometry method (REOX/MIMS) to measure 15N-nitrate in isotope-enrichment experiments

X Lin, K Lu, AK Hardison, Z Liu, X Xu, D Gao, J Gong… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Using 15 N stable isotope as a tracer to quantify N transformation rates in isotope-
enrichment experiments improves understanding of the N cycle in various ecosystems …

Kīlauea lava fuels phytoplankton bloom in the North Pacific Ocean

ST Wilson, NJ Hawco, EV Armbrust, B Barone… - Science, 2019 - science.org
From June to August 2018, the eruption of Kīlauea volcano on the island of Hawai 'i injected
millions of cubic meters of molten lava into the nutrient-poor waters of the North Pacific …

Latitudinal constraints on the abundance and activity of the cyanobacterium UCYN‐A and other marine diazotrophs in the North Pacific

MR Gradoville, H Farnelid, AE White… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The number of marine environments known to harbor dinitrogen (N2)‐fixing (diazotrophic)
microorganisms is increasing, prompting a reassessment of the biogeography of marine …

Coupling carbon and energy fluxes in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

E Grabowski, RM Letelier, EA Laws, DM Karl - Nature Communications, 2019 - nature.com
The major biogeochemical cycles of marine ecosystems are driven by solar energy. Energy
that is initially captured through photosynthesis is transformed and transported to great …

Light and depth dependency of nitrogen fixation by the non‐photosynthetic, symbiotic cyanobacterium UCYN‐A

MR Gradoville, AM Cabello, ST Wilson… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The symbiotic cyanobacterium UCYN‐A is one of the most globally abundant marine
dinitrogen (N2)‐fixers, but cultures have not been available and its biology and ecology are …

Exploring the mismatch between the theory and application of photosynthetic quotients in aquatic ecosystems

MT Trentman, RO Hall Jr… - … and Oceanography Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Estimates of primary productivity in aquatic ecosystems are commonly based on variation in
O 2, rather than CO 2. The photosynthetic quotient (PQ) is used to convert primary …

Divergence of photosynthetic strategies amongst marine diatoms

NL Fisher, DA Campbell, DJ Hughes… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Marine phytoplankton, and in particular diatoms, are responsible for almost half of all
primary production on Earth. Diatom species thrive from polar to tropical waters and across …

Membrane inlet mass spectrometry: a powerful tool for algal research

A Burlacot, F Burlacot, Y Li-Beisson… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Since the first great oxygenation event, photosynthetic microorganisms have continuously
shaped the Earth's atmosphere. Studying biological mechanisms involved in the interaction …