Nanoplanktonic diatoms are globally overlooked but play a role in spring blooms and carbon export

K Leblanc, B Queguiner, F Diaz, V Cornet… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Diatoms are one of the major primary producers in the ocean, responsible annually for~
20% of photosynthetically fixed CO2 on Earth. In oceanic models, they are typically …

Seasonal and inter-annual variations of dissolved oxygen in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea (DYFAMED site)

L Coppola, L Legendre, D Lefevre, L Prieur… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dissolved oxygen (O 2) is a relevant tracer to interpret variations of both water mass
properties in the open ocean and biological production in the surface layer of both coastal …

Distribution and accumulation of metals and metalloids in planktonic food webs of the Mediterranean Sea (MERITE-HIPPOCAMPE campaign)

S Chifflet, N Briant, JA Tesán-Onrubia, N Zaaboub… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Particle-size classes (7 fractions from 0.8 to 2000 μm) were collected in the deep chlorophyll
maximum along a Mediterranean transect including the northern coastal zone (bays of …

Phytoplankton community structure is driven by stratification in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea

C Mena, P Reglero, M Hidalgo, E Sintes… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The phytoplankton community composition, structure, and biomass were investigated under
stratified and oligotrophic conditions during summer for three consecutive years in the …

A regional neural network approach to estimate water-column nutrient concentrations and carbonate system variables in the Mediterranean Sea: CANYON-MED

M Fourrier, L Coppola, H Claustre… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A regional neural network-based method,“CANYON-MED” is developed to estimate
nutrients and carbonate system variables specifically in the Mediterranean Sea over the …

Direct discharges of domestic wastewater are a major source of phosphorus and nitrogen to the Mediterranean Sea

HR Powley, HH Durr, AT Lima, MD Krom… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Direct discharges of treated and untreated wastewater are important sources of nutrients to
coastal marine ecosystems and contribute to their eutrophication. Here, we estimate the …

The costs of meeting the environmental objectives for the Baltic Sea: a review of the literature

K Elofsson - Ambio, 2010 - Springer
The environmental targets of the recently agreed Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) targets are
likely associated with a considerable cost, which motivates a search for low-cost policies …

Lab-on-chip for in situ analysis of nutrients in the deep sea

AD Beaton, AM Schaap, R Pascal, R Hanz… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microfluidic reagent-based nutrient sensors offer a promising technology to address the
global undersampling of ocean chemistry but have so far not been shown to operate in the …

Understanding the unique biogeochemistry of the Mediterranean Sea: Insights from a coupled phosphorus and nitrogen model

HR Powley, MD Krom… - Global Biogeochemical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mediterranean Sea (MS) is an oligotrophic basin whose offshore water column
exhibits low dissolved inorganic phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) concentrations, unusually …

The first deep-sea mooring station in the eastern Levantine basin (DeepLev), outline and insights into regional sedimentological processes

T Katz, Y Weinstein, R Alkalay, E Biton, Y Toledo… - Deep Sea Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
The eastern Levantine basin (ELB) is an ultra-oligotrophic, warm and saline marine system,
significantly affected by climate change during the past several decades. The deployment of …