SUMMARY A trade-off between strategies maximizing growth and minimizing losses
appears to be a fundamental property of evolving biological entities existing in environments …

Increasing availability and extent of biological ocean time series (from both in situ and
satellite data) have helped reveal significant phenological variability of marine plankton. The …

Ocean phytoplankton biomass is predicted to decline in Earth system models, due in large
part to an expansion of nutrient-deplete ocean regions. However, the representation of …

In the frame of the BIOSOPE cruise in 2004, the spatial distribution and structure of
phytoplankton pigments was investigated along a transect crossing the ultra-oligotrophic …

In the spring and summer of 2002 primary production in the Chukchi Sea was measured,
using 14C uptake experiments. Our cruise track encompassed the shelf and continental …

Marine microbes have a pivotal role in the marine biogeochemical cycle of carbon, because
they regulate the turnover of dissolved organic matter (DOM), one of the largest carbon …

Flow cytometry, a method of rapidly characterizing optical properties of cells and cell
components within individuals, populations, and communities, is advancing research in …

Although the ecological importance of soil viruses is increasingly recognized, how soil
viruses regulate the diversity, structure and succession of microbial communities has not …

Microcystin (MC), a hepatotoxin that can adversely affect human health, has become more
prevalent in freshwater ecosystems worldwide, owing to an increase in toxic cyanobacteria …

The worldwide colony-forming haptophyte phytoplankton Phaeocystis spp. are key
organisms in trophic and biogeochemical processes in the ocean. Many organisms from …