Evaluation of in situ phytoplankton growth rates: a synthesis of data from varied approaches

EA Laws - Annual review of marine science, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The use of clean sampling and incubation methods and the development of biomass-
independent techniques for estimating the rates of growth and grazing mortality of …

Estimating microzooplankton grazing half‐saturation constants from dilution experiments with nonlinear feeding kinetics

B Chen, EA Laws, H Liu… - Limnology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
To obtain the grazing half‐saturation constant (K) of natural microzooplankton assemblages,
we used three nonlinear grazing models (rectilinear, Holling type II, and Holling type III) to fit …

Microzooplankton grazing constrains pathways of carbon export in the subarctic North Pacific

HM McNair, F Morison, JR Graff… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
To identify the effect of microzooplankton grazing on phytoplankton abundance and size
structure, we quantified phytoplankton growth and herbivorous grazing rates throughout the …

Seasonal variability and drivers of microzooplankton grazing and phytoplankton growth in a subtropical estuary

SR Anderson, EL Harvey - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Rates of microzooplankton grazing and phytoplankton growth are seldom measured with
respect to time, yet such estimates may better reflect temporal variability in coastal …

Enhanced nitrate fluxes and biological processes at a frontal zone in the southern California current system

QP Li, PJS Franks, MD Ohman… - Journal of plankton …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Processes that occur at mesoscale and submesoscale features such as eddies and fronts
are important for marine ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical fluxes. However, their …

Drivers of protistan grazing pressure: seasonal signals of plankton community composition and environmental conditions

C Lawrence, S Menden-Deuer - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2012 - int-res.com
Rates of heterotrophic protist grazing and phytoplankton growth were measured weekly to bi-
weekly in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, USA, from January 2010 to February 2011. In …

Configuration and validation of an oceanic physical and biogeochemical model to investigate coastal eutrophication in the Southern California Bight

F Kessouri, K McLaughlin, M Sutula… - Journal of Advances …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Southern California Bight (SCB), an eastern boundary upwelling system, is
impacted by global warming, acidification, and oxygen loss and receives anthropogenic …

An empirical model of carbon flow through marine viruses and microzooplankton grazers

D Talmy, SJ Beckett, DAA Taniguchi… - Environmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Viruses and microzooplankton grazers represent major sources of mortality for marine
phytoplankton and bacteria, redirecting the flow of organic material throughout the world's …

Seasonal variability in planktonic food web structure and function of the Northeast US Shelf

P Marrec, H McNair, G Franzè… - Limnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivorous consumption of primary production is a key transformation in global
biogeochemical cycles, directing matter and energy either to higher trophic levels, export …

Relative depths of the subsurface peaks of phytoplankton abundance conserved over ocean provinces

M Sato, T Shiozaki, F Hashihama… - Limnology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flow cytometric data collected from more than 250 stations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
were analyzed to determine the factors affecting the depth and magnitude of the subsurface …