Phytoplankton size structure controls the trophic organization of planktonic communities and
their ability to export biogenic materials toward the ocean's interior. Our understanding of the …

Body size is a decisive functional trait in many organisms, especially for phytoplankton,
which span several orders of magnitude in cell volume. Therefore, the analysis of size as a …

Impacts of global climate change on terrestrial ecosystems are imperfectly constrained by
ecosystem models and direct observations. Pervasive ecosystem transformations occurred …

In many community assemblages, the abundance of organisms is a power-law function of
organism size. In phytoplankton communities, changes in size structure associated with …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the evolution of the diatoms and of various groups
within the diatoms and evaluates the significance of particular shared derived traits. The …

Skeletonema comprises a planktonic genus of centric diatoms occurring in coastal and
brackish waters worldwide. The most commonly reported species, Skeletonema costatum …

Size-fractionated phytoplankton biomass and primary production, together with net
community metabolism, were measured in a coastal ecosystem (Ría de Vigo, NW-Spain) …

Phytoplankton size structure plays a significant role in controlling the carbon flux of marine
pelagic ecosystems. The mesoscale distribution and seasonal variation of total and size …

A natural marine phytoplankton assemblage from a coastal environment of Antarctica was
experimentally exposed to low salinity sea water (30 vs 34 in the control) during 8 days in …

Harmful algal blooms formed by the haptophyte Phaeocystis globosa have been recorded in
the Beibu Gulf since 2011. In this study, the composition and variation of phytoplankton …