Swirling waters replenish nutrients in open ocean, a new study finds, and could mitigate some climate change effects. Continue reading Small eddies play a big role in feeding ocean microbes
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New model sheds light on day/night cycle in the global ocean
Computer models of global ocean biogeochemistry typically don’t include the day/night light cycle. CBIOMES researchers are. Continue reading New model sheds light on day/night cycle in the global ocean
Colomban de Vargas, Noan Le Bescot, Thibaut Pollina, Nicolas Henry, Sarah Romac, Sébastien Colin, Nils Haëntjens, Margaux Carmichael, Calixte Berger, David Le Guen, Johan Decelle, Frédéric Mahé, Julie Poulain, Emmanuel Malpot, Carole Beaumont, Michel Hardy, Damien Guiffant, Ian Probert, David F. Gruber, Andrew E. Allen, Gabriel Gorsky, Michael J. Follows, Xavier Pochon, Romain Troublé, B. B. Cael, Fabien Lombard, Emmanuel Boss, Manu Prakash and the Plankton Planet core team (2022), Plankton Planet: A frugal, cooperative measure of aquatic life at the planetary scale, Front. Mar. Sci., doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.936972
Continue reading Plankton Planet: A frugal, cooperative measure of aquatic life at the planetary scale
Zhen Wu, Jincheng Li, Yanxin Sun, Josep Peñuelas, Jilin Huang, Jordi Sardans, Qingsong Jiang, Jacques C. Finlay, Gregory L. Britten, Michael J. Follows, Wei Gao, Boqiang Qin, Jinren Ni, Shouliang Huo & Yong Liu (2022), Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes, Nature Geosciences, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00958-7 Continue reading Imbalance of global nutrient cycles exacerbated by the greater retention of phosphorus over nitrogen in lakes
Simona Meiler, Gregory L. Britten, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Mary Rose Gradoville, Pia H. Moisander, Oliver Jahn, Michael J. Follows (2022), Constraining uncertainties of diazotroph biogeography from nifH gene abundance, Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.12036 Continue reading Constraining uncertainties of diazotroph biogeography from nifH gene abundance
Vinitha Ebenezer, Yingyu Hu, Olga Carnicer, Andrew J. Irwin, Michael J. Follows, Zoe V. Finkel (2022), Elemental and macromolecular composition of the marine Chloropicophyceae, a major group of oceanic photosynthetic picoeukaryotes, Limnology and Oceanography, doi: 10.1002/lno.12013 Continue reading Elemental and macromolecular composition of the marine Chloropicophyceae, a major group of oceanic photosynthetic picoeukaryotes
A Systems Level Approach to Biogeography
Microbial simulations bridge the gap between the molecular and ecosystem scales.
A new CBIOMES paper presents, for the first time, an interpretation of observed, strain-level, basin-scale biogeography using genome-scale modeling of cellular metabolism, physiology, and fitness. Continue reading A Systems Level Approach to Biogeography
Plankton’s Place
According to CBIOMES researchers, predator interactions chiefly determine where Prochlorococcus thrive – a finding that may help researchers hone predictions for where phytoplankton will migrate with climate change. Continue reading Plankton’s Place
Zhen Wu, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Oliver Jahn, Daniel Sher, Angelicque White, Michael J. Follows (2021), Modeling Photosynthesis and Exudation in Subtropical Oceans, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, doi: 10.1029/2021GB006941 Continue reading Modeling Photosynthesis and Exudation in Subtropical Oceans
Explaining Diversity Patterns Among Marine Phytoplankton
Scientists extend a concept from network theory to develop a new diagnostic for fluid flows useful in understanding the structuring of marine phytoplankton distributions. Continue reading Explaining Diversity Patterns Among Marine Phytoplankton