The impact of fine-scale currents on biogeochemical cycles in a changing ocean

M Lévy, D Couespel, C Haëck… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Fine-scale currents, O (1–100 km, days–months), are actively involved in the transport and
transformation of biogeochemical tracers in the ocean. However, their overall impact on …

Fisheries at Lagrangian fronts

SV Prants - Fisheries Research, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the recent progress in the application of Lagrangian methods for
detecting potential feeding and fishing grounds and the relationship between the dynamic …

Satellite data reveal earlier and stronger phytoplankton blooms over fronts in the Gulf Stream region

C Haëck, M Lévy, I Mangolte, L Bopp - Biogeosciences, 2023 - bg.copernicus.org
Fronts affect phytoplankton growth and phenology by locally reducing stratification and
increasing nutrient supplies. Biomass peaks at fronts have been observed in situ and linked …

An ocean front dataset for the Mediterranean sea and southwest Indian ocean

F Sudre, I Hernández-Carrasco, C Mazoyer, J Sudre… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Fronts are ubiquitous discrete features of the global ocean often associated with enhanced
vertical velocities, in turn boosting primary production. Fronts thus form dynamical and …

Eddy-driven diazotroph distribution in the subtropical North Atlantic: horizontal variability prevails over particle sinking speed

E Cerdán-García, XA Álvarez-Salgado… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Mesoscale eddies influence the distribution of diazotrophic (nitrogen-fixing) cyanobacteria,
impacting marine productivity and carbon export. Non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs (NCDs) …

Resolving abrupt frontal gradients in zooplankton community composition and marine snow fields with an autonomous Zooglider

S Gastauer, MD Ohman - Limnology and Oceanography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
An autonomous Zooglider navigated across the California Current Front into low salinity,
minty waters characteristic of the California Current proper in both summers of 2019 and …

Patchiness of plankton communities at fronts explained by Lagrangian history of upwelled water parcels

S Gangrade, I Mangolte - Limnology and Oceanography, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The transport of plankton by highly dynamic (sub) mesoscale currents—often associated
with fronts and eddies—shapes the structure of plankton communities on the same time …

Diet of non-breeding leach's storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) in the sub-polar frontal zone of the North Atlantic

MC Silva, P Catry, J Newton, VL Nunes, ED Wakefield - Marine Biology, 2024 - Springer
In order to understand the drivers of the distribution and abundance of pelagic seabirds it is
necessary to know what they eat, yet there remains little detailed, geo-referenced …

Variability of Fine‐Scale Chlorophyll Fronts in the Tīkapa Moana Te Moananui ā Toi Hauraki Gulf, Aotearoa New Zealand

A Lhériau‐Nice, A Della Penna - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aotearoa New Zealand's marine environment is heavily impacted by El Niño
Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Little is known about the effect of ENSO on oceanographic …

Evidence for kilometer‐scale biophysical features at the Gulf Stream front

PC Gray, I Savelyev, N Cassar, M Lévy… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the interplay of ocean physics and biology at the submesoscale and below
(< 30 km) is an ongoing challenge in oceanography. While poorly constrained, these scales …