There is increasing awareness that many terrestrial and aquatic organisms are not strictly
heterotrophic or autotrophic but rather mixotrophic. Mixotrophy is an intermediate nutritional …

This monograph reviews marine micro-algal species from all origins around the globe for
their toxic or harmful character. We have considered the ex-pressions toxic and harmful in …

Protist plankton are major members of open‐water marine food webs. Traditionally divided
between phototrophic phytoplankton and phagotrophic zooplankton, recent research shows …

Arranging organisms into functional groups aids ecological research by grou** organisms
(irrespective of phylogenetic origin) that interact with environmental factors in similar ways …

The classic portrayal of plankton is dominated by phytoplanktonic primary producers and
zooplanktonic secondary producers. In reality, many if not most plankton traditionally …

Ecological Stoichiometry theory predicts that the production, elemental structure and cellular
content of biomolecules should depend on the relative availability of resources and the …

One of the main obstacles for continuous productivity in microalgae cultivation is the
presence of biological contaminants capable of eliminating large numbers of cells in a …

Cyanobacteria are the most common toxigenic algae in inland waters. Their toxins can affect
the health of aquatic and terrestrial organisms, including humans. Other algal groups, such …

Mixotrophy, or the ability to acquire carbon from both auto-and heterotrophy, is a widespread
ecological trait in marine protists. Using a metabarcoding dataset of marine plankton from …

Next generation sequencing of ribosomal DNA is increasingly used to assess the diversity
and structure of microbial communities. Here we test the ability of 454 pyrosequencing to …