Algae as an emerging source of bioactive pigments

AK Patel, FPJB Albarico, PK Perumal, AP Vadrale… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Algae have been identified as natural producer of bioactive commercial pigments. To
perform photosynthesis, algae use pigments to harvest sunlight energy. The pigments found …

Global nitrogen cycle: critical enzymes, organisms, and processes for nitrogen budgets and dynamics

X Zhang, BB Ward, DM Sigman - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Nitrogen (N) is used in many of life's fundamental biomolecules, and it is also a participant in
environmental redox chemistry. Biogeochemical processes control the amount and form of N …

Ecosystem services provided by marine and freshwater phytoplankton

L Naselli-Flores, J Padisák - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
Phytoplankton, the ecological group of microalgae adapted to live in apparent suspension in
water masses, is much more than an ecosystem's engineer. In this opinion paper, we use …

Energy flow through marine ecosystems: confronting transfer efficiency

TD Eddy, JR Bernhardt, JL Blanchard… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an
emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and responds dynamically to …

[HTML][HTML] A seamless ensemble-based reconstruction of surface ocean CO and air–sea CO fluxes over the global coastal and open oceans

TTT Chau, M Gehlen, F Chevallier - Biogeosciences, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
We have estimated global air–sea CO 2 fluxes (fg CO 2) from the open ocean to coastal
seas. Fluxes and associated uncertainty are computed from an ensemble-based …

The geologic history of primary productivity

PW Crockford, YMB On, LM Ward, R Milo, I Halevy - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The rate of primary productivity is a keystone variable in driving biogeochemical cycles
today and has been throughout Earth's past. 1 For example, it plays a critical role in …

Phytoplankton in the Tara Ocean

JJ Pierella Karlusich, FM Ibarbalz… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthesis evolved in the ocean more than 2 billion years ago and is now performed by
a wide range of evolutionarily distinct organisms, including both prokaryotes and …

Double trouble in the South Pacific subtropical gyre: Increased plastic ingestion by fish in the oceanic accumulation zone

A Markic, C Niemand, JH Bridson… - Marine Pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
Fish are an important food source for South Pacific (SP) island countries, yet there is little
information on contamination of commercial marine fish species by plastic. The aim of our …

Marine productivity changes during the end-Permian crisis and Early Triassic recovery

J Shen, SD Schoepfer, Q Feng, L Zhou, J Yu… - Earth-Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The latest Permian mass extinction (LPME) coincided with major changes in the composition
of marine plankton communities, yet little is known about concurrent changes in primary …

Ocean water quality monitoring using remote sensing techniques: A review

F Mohseni, F Saba, SM Mirmazloumi, M Amani… - Marine environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Ocean Water Quality (OWQ) monitoring provides insights into the quality of water in
marine and near-shore environments. OWQ measurements can contain the physical …