Global biogeochemical impacts of phytoplankton: a trait‐based perspective

E Litchman, P de Tezanos Pinto, KF Edwards… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton are key players in the global carbon cycle, contributing about half of global
primary productivity. Within the phytoplankton, functional groups (characterized by distinct …

Advancing microbial sciences by individual-based modelling

FL Hellweger, RJ Clegg, JR Clark, CM Plugge… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Remarkable technological advances have revealed ever more properties and behaviours of
individual microorganisms, but the novel data generated by these techniques have not yet …

The impact of temperature on marine phytoplankton resource allocation and metabolism

A Toseland, SJ Daines, JR Clark, A Kirkham… - Nature Climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Marine phytoplankton are responsible for∼ 50% of the CO2 that is fixed annually worldwide,
and contribute massively to other biogeochemical cycles in the oceans. Their contribution …

Mechanistic constraints on the trade-off between photosynthesis and respiration in response to warming

SG Leles, NM Levine - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Phytoplankton are responsible for half of all oxygen production and drive the ocean carbon
cycle. Metabolic theory predicts that increasing global temperatures will cause …

Trait-based modelling in ecology: a review of two decades of research

L Zakharova, KM Meyer, M Seifan - Ecological Modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Trait-based approaches are an alternative to species-based approaches for functionally
linking individual organisms with community structure and dynamics. In the trait-based …

Biogeographic patterns in ocean microbes emerge in a neutral agent-based model

FL Hellweger, E van Sebille, ND Fredrick - Science, 2014 - science.org
A key question in ecology and evolution is the relative role of natural selection and neutral
evolution in producing biogeographic patterns. We quantify the role of neutral processes by …

Multiple environmental controls on phytoplankton growth strategies determine adaptive responses of the N: P ratio

SJ Daines, JR Clark, TM Lenton - Ecology letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The controls on the 'Redfield'N: P stoichiometry of marine phytoplankton and hence the N: P
ratio of the deep ocean remain incompletely understood. Here, we use a model for …

Modeling microbial growth and dynamics

DS Esser, JHJ Leveau, KM Meyer - Applied microbiology and …, 2015 - Springer
Modeling has become an important tool for widening our understanding of microbial growth
in the context of applied microbiology and related to such processes as safe food …

Phytoplankton dynamics and bloom formation in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean: Field studies in the Aegean, Levantine and Ionian seas

I Varkitzi, S Psarra, G Assimakopoulou… - Deep Sea Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study attempts to elucidate the dynamics of phytoplankton biomass (as Chl-a),
productivity, community structure and bloom formation in different regions of the oligotrophic …

Copepod diapause and the biogeography of the marine lipidscape

NR Record, R Ji, F Maps, Ø Varpe… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim One of the primary characteristics that determines the structure and function of marine
food webs is the utilization and prominence of energy‐rich lipids. The biogeographical …