Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

P Tréguer, C Bowler, B Moriceau, S Dutkiewicz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Diatoms sustain the marine food web and contribute to the export of carbon from the surface
ocean to depth. They account for about 40% of marine primary productivity and particulate …

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 …

Global analysis of ocean phytoplankton nutrient limitation reveals high prevalence of co-limitation

TJ Browning, CM Moore - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Nutrient availability limits phytoplankton growth throughout much of the global ocean. Here
we synthesize available experimental data to identify three dominant nutrient limitation …

Plastic waste discharge to the global ocean constrained by seawater observations

Y Zhang, P Wu, R Xu, X Wang, L Lei… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Marine plastic pollution poses a potential threat to the ecosystem, but the sources and their
magnitudes remain largely unclear. Existing bottom-up emission inventories vary among …

Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015–2016 El Niño

J Liu, KW Bowman, DS Schimel, NC Parazoo, Z Jiang… - Science, 2017 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The influence of El Niño on climate is accompanied by large changes to
the carbon cycle, and El Niño–induced variability in the carbon cycle has been attributed …

Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity

S Dutkiewicz, P Cermeno, O Jahn, MJ Follows… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Biodiversity of phytoplankton is important for ecosystem stability and marine
biogeochemistry. However, the large-scale patterns of diversity are not well understood and …

[HTML][HTML] The 2015–2016 carbon cycle as seen from OCO-2 and the global in situ network

S Crowell, D Baker, A Schuh, S Basu… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - acp.copernicus.org
Abstract The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 has been on orbit since 2014, and its global
coverage holds the potential to reveal new information about the carbon cycle through the …

Marine mixotrophy increases trophic transfer efficiency, mean organism size, and vertical carbon flux

BA Ward, MJ Follows - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Mixotrophic plankton, which combine the uptake of inorganic resources and the ingestion of
living prey, are ubiquitous in marine ecosystems, but their integrated biogeochemical …

The temperature dependence of microbial community respiration is amplified by changes in species interactions

FC García, T Clegg, DB O'Neill, R Warfield… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Respiratory release of CO2 by microorganisms is one of the main components of the global
carbon cycle. However, there are large uncertainties regarding the effects of climate …

An updated global mercury budget from a coupled atmosphere-land-ocean model: 40% more re-emissions buffer the effect of primary emission reductions

Y Zhang, P Zhang, Z Song, S Huang, T Yuan, P Wu… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
The effectiveness of reducing the environmental level of mercury (Hg) by controlling
anthropogenic emissions depends on the magnitude of re-emissions from the land and …