Resurrecting the ecological underpinnings of ocean plankton blooms

MJ Behrenfeld, ES Boss - Annual review of marine science, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Nutrient and light conditions control phytoplankton division rates in the surface ocean and, it
is commonly believed, dictate when and where high concentrations, or blooms, of plankton …

Gross and net primary production in the global ocean: An ocean color remote sensing perspective

TK Westberry, GM Silsbe, MJ Behrenfeld - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Phytoplankton photosynthesis and organic matter production fuel marine ecosystems and
provide the source material for trophic transfer and export to the ocean interior. Methods for …

Melting glaciers stimulate large summer phytoplankton blooms in southwest Greenland waters

KR Arrigo, GL van Dijken, RM Castelao… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Each summer, large quantities of freshwater and associated dissolved and particulate
material are released from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) into local fjords where they …

Twenty-one years of phytoplankton bloom phenology in the Barents, Norwegian, and North Seas

E Silva, F Counillon, J Brajard, A Korosov… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Phytoplankton blooms provide biomass to the marine trophic web, contribute to the carbon
removal from the atmosphere and can be deadly when associated with harmful species …

Consistent global responses of marine ecosystems to future climate change across the IPCC AR5 earth system models

A Cabré, I Marinov, S Leung - Climate dynamics, 2015 - Springer
We analyze for the first time all 16 Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 models
with explicit marine ecological modules to identify the common mechanisms involved in …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonality in phytoplankton communities and production in three Arctic fjords across a climate gradient

C Chitkara, T Juul-Pedersen, D Krawczyk… - Progress in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Phytoplankton communities and production in Arctic fjords undergo strong seasonal
variations. Phytoplankton blooms are periods with high primary production, leading to …

A comparison of methods to determine phytoplankton bloom initiation

SR Brody, MS Lozier, JP Dunne - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton bloom phenology has important consequences for marine ecosystems and
fisheries. Recent studies have used remotely sensed ocean color data to calculate metrics …

Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes

MG Keerthi, CJ Prend, O Aumont, M Lévy - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Phytoplankton biomass exhibits substantial year-to-year changes, and understanding these
changes is crucial to fisheries management and projecting future climate. These annual …

Climate change has altered zooplankton-fuelled carbon export in the North Atlantic

P Brun, K Stamieszkin, AW Visser, P Licandro… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Marine plankton have been conspicuously affected by recent climate change, responding
with profound spatial relocations and shifts in the timing of their seasonal occurrence. These …

Annual cycles of phytoplankton biomass in the subarctic Atlantic and Pacific Ocean

TK Westberry, P Schultz, MJ Behrenfeld… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
High‐latitude phytoplankton blooms support productive fisheries and play an important role
in oceanic uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide. In the subarctic North Atlantic Ocean …