Monthly Archives: September 2014

From Figure 5 of Levy et al (2014)

Mixing Down Diversity

Phytoplankton are an extremely diverse set of floating, microscopic organisms, which are freely transported by water movements (current, eddies, etc.) and make up the base of the oceanic food web. This work, published in the September issue of Limnology & Oceanography: Fluids & Environments,  explores how their diversity is affected by dispersal by different scales of motions in the ocean. Continue reading Mixing Down Diversity