Prochlorococcus: the structure and function of collective diversity

SJ Biller, PM Berube, D Lindell… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus is the smallest and most abundant
photosynthetic organism on Earth. In this Review, we summarize our understanding of the …

[图书][B] The evolutionary strategies that shape ecosystems

JP Grime, S Pierce - 2012 - books.google.com
THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles
Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree …

Seasonal and spatial patterns of picophytoplankton growth, grazing and distribution in the East China Sea

C Guo, H Liu, L Zheng, S Song, B Chen… - …, 2014 - bg.copernicus.org
Dynamics of picophytoplankton population distribution in the East China Sea (ECS), a
marginal sea in the western North Pacific Ocean, were studied during two cruises in August …

The role of Synechococcus in vertical flux in the Costa Rica upwelling dome

MR Stukel, M Décima, KE Selph, DAA Taniguchi… - Progress in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Despite evidence that picophytoplankton contribute to export from marine pelagic
ecosystems to some extent, few field studies have experimentally evaluated the quantitative …

[HTML][HTML] Distribution of picophytoplankton communities from brackish to hypersaline waters in a South Australian coastal lagoon

M Schapira, MJ Buscot, T Pollet, SC Leterme… - Saline systems, 2010 - Springer
Background Picophytoplankton (ie cyanobacteria and pico-eukaryotes) are abundant and
ecologically critical components of the autotrophic communities in the pelagic realm. These …

[HTML][HTML] Grazing by microzooplankton and copepods on the microbial food web in spring in the southern Yellow Sea, China

Y Zhao, Y Dong, H Li, S Lin, L Huang, T Xiao… - Marine Life Science & …, 2020 - Springer
Assessment of microzooplankton and copepods grazing pressure on picoplankton is a key
requirement for resolving the microbial food web efficiency. Although microzooplankton …

Contribution of picophytoplankton to carbon export in the equatorial Pacific: A reassessment of food web flux inferences from inverse models

MR Stukel, MR Landry - Limnology and Oceanography, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigm that carbon export is derived almost exclusively from the primary production of
large phytoplankton has been challenged by inverse ecosystem modeling studies that …

Are microcosm volume and sample pre-filtration relevant to evaluate phytoplankton growth?

P Nogueira, RB Domingues, AB Barbosa - Journal of experimental marine …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract “Bottle effects” are one of the most deeply rooted concerns of phytoplankton
microcosm studies and are mainly related to incubation time and sample volume. Sample …

Seasonal and size-dependent variations in the phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing in the southern South China Sea under the influence of the East …

L Zhou, Y Tan, L Huang, Z Hu, Z Ke - Biogeosciences, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
To examine seasonal and size-dependent variations in the phytoplankton growth and
microzooplankton grazing in oligotrophic tropical waters under the influence of seasonal …

Effect of environmental forcing on the biomass, production and growth rate of size-fractionated phytoplankton in the central Atlantic Ocean

M Huete-Ortega, A Calvo-Díaz, R Graña… - Journal of Marine …, 2011 - Elsevier
To ascertain the response of phytoplankton size classes to changes in environmental
forcing, we determined size-fractionated biomass, carbon fixation and growth …