The temperature of seawater can affect marine plankton in various ways, including by
affecting rates of metabolic processes. This can change the way carbon and nutrients are …

The pelagic ocean harbors one of the largest ecosystems on Earth. It is responsible for
approximately half of global primary production, sustains worldwide fisheries, and plays an …

Climate variation affects surface ocean processes and the production of organic carbon,
which ultimately comprises the primary food supply to the deep-sea ecosystems that …

Temperature imposes a constraint on the rates and outcomes of ecological processes that
determine community‐and ecosystem‐level patterns. The application of metabolic scaling …

Standard metabolic theory predicts that both respiration and photosynthesis should increase
with increasing temperature, albeit at different rates. However, test of this prediction for …

Oceanic control of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is the link between the
studies of plankton ecology and climate change. Modeling ecosystem dynamics requires …

Oceanic communities are sources or sinks of CO2, depending on the balance between
primary production and community respiration. The prediction of how global climate change …

Changes in oceanic primary production, linked to changes in the network of global
biogeochemical cycles, have profoundly influenced the geochemistry of Earth for over 3 …

Ocean warming and acidification occur at global scales and, in the case of temperature,
have already caused shifts in marine ecosystem composition and function. In the case of CO …

The universal temperature dependence of metabolic rates has been used to predict how
ocean biology will respond to ocean warming. Determining the temperature sensitivity of …