Two decades of oligotrophication: Evidence for a phytoplankton community shift in the coastal lagoon of Thau (Mediterranean Sea, France)

V Derolez, D Soudant, N Malet, C Chiantella… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mediterranean costal lagoons have been exposed to anthropic eutrophication for decades.
Thau lagoon is one of the largest among them and provides many ecosystem services …

Phytoplankton diversity effect on ecosystem functioning in a coastal upwelling system

J Otero, XA Álvarez-Salgado, A Bode - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Species composition plays a key role in ecosystem functioning. Theoretical, experimental
and field studies show positive effects of biodiversity on ecosystem processes. However, this …

Effects of phytoplankton diversity on resource use efficiency in a eutrophic urban river of Northern China

M Ma, J Li, A Lu, P Zhu, X Yin - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Freshwater biodiversity has been declining in urban areas, which may threaten ecosystem
functions. Although many studies have demonstrated a positive correlation between …

Phytoplankton taxonomic and functional diversity patterns across a coastal tidal front

P Ramond, R Siano, S Schmitt, C de Vargas, L Marié… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Oceanic physics at fine scale; eg eddies, fronts, filaments; are notoriously difficult to sample.
However, an increasing number of theoretical approaches hypothesize that these processes …

Morphological diversity increases with decreasing resources along a zooplankton time series

M Beck, C Cailleton, L Guidi… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biodiversity is studied notably because of its reciprocal relationship with ecosystem
functions such as production. Diversity is traditionally described from a taxonomic, genetic or …

Phytoplankton dynamics and water quality in the Venice lagoon

F Bernardi Aubry, F Acri, S Finotto, A Pugnetti - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
We analyzed the phytoplankton abundance and community structure monthly over a 20-year
period (1998–2017) at five stations in the Venice lagoon (VL), one of the sites belonging to …

Physiological and behavioral responses of phytoplankton communities to nutrient availability in a disturbed Mediterranean coastal lagoon

A Leruste, V Pasqualini, M Garrido, N Malet… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Short-term bioassays were conducted in Biguglia lagoon (Corsica) to study the physiological
and behavioral responses of phytoplankton to N-and P-availability. Natural communities …

Evaluation of sequential filtration and centrifugation to capture environmental DNA and survey microbial eukaryotic communities in aquatic environments

A Atteia, B Bec, C Gianaroli, O Serais… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sequential membrane filtration of water samples is commonly used to monitor the diversity
of aquatic microbial eukaryotes. This capture method is efficient to focus on specific …

Phytoplankton strategies to exploit nutrients in coastal lagoons with different eutrophication status during re-oligotrophication

A Leruste, F Guilhaumon, R De Wit, N Malet… - Aquatic Microbial …, 2019 - int-res.com
We studied a mesotrophic and a hypertrophic Mediterranean coastal lagoon, both of which
had been simultaneously subjected to a nutrient input reduction for 9 yr. We compared these …

Diversity of taxon-specific traits of seasonally distinct unicellular eukaryotic assemblages in a eutrophic coastal area with marked plankton blooms

S Genitsaris, N Stefanidou, U Sommer… - Aquatic Microbial …, 2022 - int-res.com
In this work, we focused on the functional characterization of unicellular eukaryotic
assemblages that had previously been taxonomically characterized by 18S rRNA gene …