Phago-mixotrophy, the combination of photoautotrophy and phagotrophy in mixoplankton,
organisms that can combine both trophic strategies, have gained increasing attention over …

Eastern Boundary Systems support major fisheries whose early life stages depend on
upwelling production. Upwelling can be highly variable at the regional scale, with …

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

Analysis of trait trade-offs, through which physiological traits requiring common resources
are 'traded'to optimize competitive advantage, provides a route to simplify and more readily …

Executive summary Microbes are all pervasive in their distribution and influence on the
functioning and well‐being of humans, life in general and the planet. Microbially‐based …

Planktonic organisms including phyto-, zoo-, and mixoplankton are key components of
aquatic ecosystems and respond quickly to changes in the environment, therefore their …

With climate change, oceans are becoming increasingly nutrient limited, favouring growth of
prokaryotic picoplankton at the expense of the larger protist plankton whose growth support …

Abstract Knowledge about biodiversity changes during transitions from glacial landscape to
lake formation is limited to contemporary studies. Here, we combined analyses of lithology …

In sunlit waters, significant predation is performed by unicellular, phagotrophic mixotrophs,
that is, predators that also possess plastids. The success of a mixotrophic lifestyle will …

Plankton phototrophy consumes CO2, increasing seawater pH, while heterotrophy does the
converse. Elevation of pH (> 8.5) during coastal blooms becomes increasingly deleterious …