Zooplankton grazing is the largest source of uncertainty for marine carbon cycling in CMIP6 models

T Rohr, AJ Richardson, A Lenton… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The current generation of Earth system models used by the United Nations to project future
climate scenarios (CMIP6) relies heavily on marine biogeochemical models to track the fate …

Steeper size spectra with decreasing phytoplankton biomass indicate strong trophic amplification and future fish declines

A Atkinson, AG Rossberg, U Gaedke, G Sprules… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Under climate change, model ensembles suggest that declines in phytoplankton biomass
amplify into greater reductions at higher trophic levels, with serious implications for fisheries …

Filter‐feeding gelatinous macrozooplankton response to climate change and implications for benthic food supply and global carbon cycle

C Clerc, O Aumont, L Bopp - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
It is often suggested that gelatinous zooplankton may benefit from anthropogenic pressures
of all kinds and in particular from climate change. Large pelagic tunicates, for example, are …

Seasonal changes in the size distribution of copepods is affected by coastal upwelling

JCL Rosa, TS Matos, DCB da Silva, C Reis, CO Dias… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Water temperature controls the physiology, growth rate, distribution, and behavior of most
plankton populations in the sea and thus affects the energy transfer in marine ecosystems …

Trophic flows to mesozooplankton support the conventional paradigm of pelagic food web structure in ocean ecosystems

MR Landry, M Décima, MR Stukel… - ICES Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The current conventional paradigm of ocean food web structure inserts one full level or more
of microzooplankton heterotrophic consumption, a substantial energy drop, between …

Evaluating the performance of a system model in predicting zooplankton dynamics: Insights from the Bering Sea ecosystem

G Sullaway, CJ Cunningham, D Kimmel… - Fisheries …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how ecosystem change influences fishery resources through trophic
pathways is a key tenet of ecosystem‐based fishery management. System models (SM) …

Key link between iron and the size structure of three main mesoplanktonic groups (Crustaceans, Rhizarians, and colonial N2-fixers) in the Global Ocean

M Dugenne, M Corrales-Ugalde, JY Luo, L Stemmann… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Size is commonly used as a master trait to characterize pelagic organisms as it affects a
range of processes and impact marine biogeochemical cycles and services. Yet, a holistic …