Environmental determinants of the distribution of planktonic diplonemids and kinetoplastids in the oceans

O Flegontova, P Flegontov… - Environmental …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We analysed a widely used barcode, the V9 region of the 18S rRNA gene, to study the effect
of environmental conditions on the distribution of two related heterotrophic protistan …

Changing ecological conditions in the marine environment generate different microbial food web structures in a repeatable manner

M Šolić, D Šantić, S Šestanović, G Kušpilić… - Frontiers in marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The mechanisms responsible for the development of various structural and functional
features of the microbial food web (MFW) and their dynamics at spatial and temporal scales …

Analysis of the influence of seasonal water column dynamics on the relationship between marine viruses and microbial food web components using an artificial neural …

M Ordulj, D Šantić, F Matić, S Jozić… - Journal of marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Artificial neural network analysis (ANN) is used to study the seasonal distribution of viruses
and microbial food web (MFW) components in the open Adriatic Sea. The effect of viruses …

Record-breaking salinities in the middle Adriatic during summer 2017 and concurrent changes in the microbial food web

GB Paklar, I Vilibić, B Grbec, F Matić… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Oceanographic measurements carried out in the middle Adriatic during summer 2017
revealed anomalous conditions in both physical and microbial properties. High salinities …

Impact of water column stability dynamics on the succession of plankton food web types in the offshore area of the Adriatic Sea

M Šolić, D Šantić, S Šestanović, N Bojanić… - Journal of Sea …, 2020 - Elsevier
Vertical mixing and stratification are among the most important physical processes
controlling nutrient dynamics, the dominant category of primary producers and consequently …

Dynamics of Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs along the trophic gradient in the central Adriatic Sea

AV Tomaš, D Šantić, M Šolić, M Ordulj, S Jozić… - Deep Sea Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Although Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs (AAPs) are widespread in aquatic
environments, relatively little is known about their dynamics in the Adriatic Sea. Therefore …

Simultaneous study of the growth and grazing mortality rates of microbial food web components in a Mediterranean Coastal Lagoon

D Pecqueur, J Courboulès, C Roques, S Mas, R Pete… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
The abundances of 17 cytometric groups encompassing four groups of bacteria, three
groups of cyanobacteria, six groups of eukaryotic picophytoplankton (< 2–3 µm), and four …

Changes in the trophic pathways within the microbial food web in the global warming scenario: an experimental study in the Adriatic Sea

M Šolić, D Šantić, S Šestanović, N Bojanić, S Jozić… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
A recent analysis of the Mediterranean Sea surface temperature showed significant annual
warming. Since small picoplankton microorganisms play an important role in all major …

Effect of warming on growth, grazing, and community composition of free-living bacterioplankton in subtropical coastal waters during winter and summer

B Gu, C Lee, X Ma, Y Tan, H Liu, X Xia - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Global warming is considered a major threat to marine ecosystems, which affects
bacterioplankton activity, diversity, and community composition. However, few studies focus …

Temperature and phosphorus interacts in controlling the picoplankton carbon flux in the Adriatic Sea: an experimental versus field study

M Šolić, D Šantić, S Šestanović… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature and phosphorus positively interacted in controlling picoplankton biomass
production and its transfer towards higher trophic levels. Two complementary approaches …