Nutrient and light conditions control phytoplankton division rates in the surface ocean and, it
is commonly believed, dictate when and where high concentrations, or blooms, of plankton …

Zooplankton is a morphologically and taxonomically diverse group and includes organisms
that vary in size by many orders of magnitude, but they are all faced with the common …

A review of the literature (ca 1900 to 1992) on copepod feeding indicates that combinations
of stochashc and deterministic processes result in behaviors, or feeding strategies, that …

Erythropoietin, a kidney cytokine regulating haematopoiesis (the production of blood cells),
is also produced in the brain after oxidative or nitrosative stress,. The transcription factor …

We show the results of a comparative, cross-ecosystem, analysis of the relative importance
of ciliates as carbon sources for copepod, and, specifically, evaluated the strength of the …

Our limited intuition of the small‐scale world of the plankton has biased the way we describe
and understand ocean ecology. Classical approaches consider fluxes of energy and matter …

Picophytoplankton populations [Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus (SYN), and
picoeukaryotes] are dominant primary producers in the open ocean and projected to …

Here we present a new, pan-Atlantic compilation and analysis of data on Calanus
finmarchicus abundance, demography, dormancy, egg production and mortality in relation to …

Modelers often need to quantify the rates at which zooplankton consume a variety of
species, size classes and trophic types. Implicit in the equations used to describe the …

Copepod faecal pellets have often been considered as rapid transporters of material out of
the euphotic zone. Laboratory experiments on their degradation and sinking rates support …