Zooplankton and the ocean carbon cycle

DK Steinberg, MR Landry - Annual review of marine science, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Marine zooplankton comprise a phylogenetically and functionally diverse assemblage of
protistan and metazoan consumers that occupy multiple trophic levels in pelagic food webs …

Zooplankton trophic structure and ecosystem productivity

M Décima - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2022 - int-res.com
The number of trophic steps within a plankton food web plays an important role in
determining the energy available to support higher-level consumers by affecting trophic …

Alanine δ15N trophic fractionation in heterotrophic protists

M Décima, MR Landry, CJ Bradley… - Limnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluated differences in the 15N isotopic enrichment factors of trophic amino acids (AA)
for protistan (microzooplankton) and metazoan (mesozooplankton) consumers, testing the …

Phytoplankton seasonal dynamics under conditions of climate change and anthropogenic pollution in the western coastal waters of the Black Sea (Sevastopol Region …

L Stelmakh, N Kovrigina, T Gorbunova - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The studies of seasonal phytoplankton dynamics, its growth rate, and microzooplankton
grazing were conducted on two stations in the western Black Sea coastal waters near …

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 …

Microbial food web dynamics in the oceanic Gulf of Mexico

MR Landry, KE Selph, MR Stukel… - Journal of Plankton …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Phytoplankton growth and microzooplankton grazing rates were measured in repeated
profiles of dilution experiments incubated in situ on a drift array in order to assess microbial …

Mesozooplankton biomass, grazing and trophic structure in the bluefin tuna spawning area of the oceanic Gulf of Mexico

MR Landry, R Swalethorp - Journal of Plankton Research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We investigated size-fractioned biomass, isotopes and grazing of mesozooplankton
communities in the larval habitat of Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABT) in the oceanic Gulf of Mexico …

Quantifying spatiotemporal variability in zooplankton dynamics in the Gulf of Mexico with a physical–biogeochemical model

TA Shropshire, SL Morey, EP Chassignet… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Zooplankton play an important role in global biogeochemistry, and their secondary
production supports valuable fisheries of the world's oceans. Currently, zooplankton …

The unique ecological role of pyrosomes in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

M Décima, MR Stukel, L López‐López… - Limnology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pyrosomes are an important but often overlooked component of marine zooplankton
communities, with limited existing information regarding their ecological and trophic roles in …

Plankton food webs in the oligotrophic Gulf of Mexico spawning grounds of Atlantic bluefin tuna

MR Stukel, T Gerard, TB Kelly, AN Knapp… - Journal of Plankton …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We used linear inverse ecosystem modeling techniques to assimilate data from extensive
Lagrangian field experiments into a mass-balance constrained food web for the Gulf of …