Zooplankton is a morphologically and taxonomically diverse group and includes organisms
that vary in size by many orders of magnitude, but they are all faced with the common …

▪ Abstract The performance of an organism is the crucial link between its phenotype and its
ecological success. When does an organism's morphology affect its performance …

Our limited intuition of the small‐scale world of the plankton has biased the way we describe
and understand ocean ecology. Classical approaches consider fluxes of energy and matter …

We present solutions for nutrient transfer to osmotrophs in the full range of flow regimes for
which solutions have been published, and we extend some of those solutions to new …

In plankton ecology, biological and physical dynamics are coupled, structuring how plankton
interact with their environment and other organisms. This interdisciplinary field has …

Understanding the mechanisms by which environmental chemical signals, chemical
defenses, and other chemical agents mediate various life-history processes can lead to …

From the literature we obtained experimental data on the effects of small-scale turbulence
on plankton at the organism scale. Normalized rates in response to turbulence were …

Diatoms have evolved a multitude of morphologies, including highly elongated cells and cell
chains. Elongation and chain formation have many possible functions, such as grazing …

An experimental study was carried out to investigate aggregation and breakup of particles in
a Couette flow system with the inner cylinder rotating at constant speed. Experiments were …

Fertilization is a complex interaction among biological traits of gametes and physical
properties of the fluid environment. At the scale of fertilization (0.01–1 mm), sperm encounter …