Accurate and detailed reporting of methods is essential for scientific progress, yet it is widely
accepted that authors across all scientific fields tend to provide insufficient methods detail …

Picophytoplankton (PicoP) are increasingly recognized as significant contributors to primary
productivity and phytoplankton biomass in coastal and estuarine systems. Remarkably …

Syndiniales are a ubiquitous group of protist parasites that infect and kill a wide range of
hosts, including harmful bloom-forming dinoflagellates. Despite the importance of parasitism …

Microbes drive ecosystems and their viruses manipulate these processes, yet the
importance of tidal functioning on the estuarine viruses and microbes remains poorly …

Phytoplankton are usually considered autotrophs, but an increasing number of studies show
that many taxa are able also to use organic carbon. Acquiring nutrients and energy from …

Niche theory is a foundational ecological concept that explains the distribution of species in
natural environments. Identifying the dimensions of any organism's niche is challenging …

Rates of microzooplankton grazing and phytoplankton growth are seldom measured with
respect to time, yet such estimates may better reflect temporal variability in coastal …

Viral lysis of phytoplankton is one of the most common forms of death on Earth. Building on
an assay used extensively to assess rates of phytoplankton loss to predation by grazers …

Picophytoplankton in the Baltic Sea includes the simplest unicellular cyanoprokaryotes
(Synechococcus/Cyanobium) and photosynthetic picoeukaryotes (PPE). Picophytoplankton …

The in vivo fluorescence of chlorophyll-a is commonly used as a proxy for phytoplankton
biomass. Measurement of in vivo fluorescence in the field is attractive because it can be …