Phosphorus is an essential element for life, serving as an integral component of nucleic
acids, lipids and a diverse range of other metabolites. Concentrations of bioavailable …

Copepods, cladocerans and tunicates form major groups of herbivorous mesozooplankton.
The former two are found in fresh and marine waters, while the latter are restricted to marine …

Biodiversity has both fascinated and puzzled biologists. In aquatic ecosystems, the
biodiversity puzzle is particularly troublesome, and known as the 'paradox of the plankton' …

Based on existing knowledge about phytoplankton responses to nutrients and food size
spectra of herbivorous zooplankton, three different configurations of pelagic food webs are …

Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment of the coastal zone is now a well-established fact.
However, there is still uncertainty about the mechanisms through which nutrient enrichment …

We investigate biological mechanisms that generate oscillations and chaos in multispecies
competition models. For this purpose, we use a competition model concerned with …

In order to provide a better understanding of phytoplankton structure and their relationship
with environmental parameters in typical maricultural areas in Southern China, observations …

Abstract Phytoplankton dynamics of Eastern Indian coast was studied from surface water for
a period of 24 months (April 2005–March 2007) in relation to environmental variables like …

The response of the biomass and primary production of a coastal NW Mediterranean
phytoplankton community to a gradient of nutrient inputs was examined in a large-scale …

Abundance and composition of microplankton were studied over a period of 2 years at two
depths in Villefranche Bay (Ligurian Sea, NW Mediterranean Sea). Diatoms dominated the …