From hairballs to hypotheses–biological insights from microbial networks

L Röttjers, K Faust - FEMS microbiology reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Microbial networks are an increasingly popular tool to investigate microbial community
structure, as they integrate multiple types of information and may represent systems-level …

Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump

P Tréguer, C Bowler, B Moriceau, S Dutkiewicz… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Diatoms sustain the marine food web and contribute to the export of carbon from the surface
ocean to depth. They account for about 40% of marine primary productivity and particulate …

The biomass distribution on Earth

YM Bar-On, R Phillips, R Milo - Proceedings of the National …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
A census of the biomass on Earth is key for understanding the structure and dynamics of the
biosphere. However, a global, quantitative view of how the biomass of different taxa …

Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming

F Benedetti, M Vogt, UH Elizondo, D Righetti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Marine phytoplankton and zooplankton form the basis of the ocean's food-web, yet the
impacts of climate change on their biodiversity are poorly understood. Here, we use an …

Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

F Lombard, E Boss, AM Waite, M Vogt, J Uitz… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In this paper we review the technologies available to make globally quantitative
observations of particles in general—and plankton in particular—in the world oceans, and …

Evaluation of climate models

G Flato, J Marotzke, B Abiodun, P Braconnot… - Climate change 2013 …, 2014 - pure.mpg.de
Climate models have continued to be developed and improved since the AR4, and many
models have been extended into Earth System models by including the representation of …

An ocean-colour time series for use in climate studies: the experience of the ocean-colour climate change initiative (OC-CCI)

S Sathyendranath, RJW Brewin, C Brockmann… - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Ocean colour is recognised as an Essential Climate Variable (ECV) by the Global Climate
Observing System (GCOS); and spectrally-resolved water-leaving radiances (or remote …

Ocean biogeochemical modelling

K Fennel, JP Mattern, SC Doney, L Bopp… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Ocean biogeochemical models describe the ocean's circulation, physical properties,
biogeochemical properties and their transformations using coupled differential equations …

Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

P Flombaum, JL Gallegos… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus account for a substantial fraction
of marine primary production. Here, we present quantitative niche models for these lineages …

Estimating global biomass and biogeochemical cycling of marine fish with and without fishing

D Bianchi, DA Carozza, ED Galbraith, J Guiet… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The biomass and biogeochemical roles of fish in the ocean are ecologically important but
poorly known. Here, we use a data-constrained marine ecosystem model to provide a first …