CBIOMES researcher contributes to study demonstrating that pigment diversity in the cyanobacteria Synechococcus has enabled this organism to colonize all light environments. Continue reading Ocean Chameleons: How phytoplankton adapt to light to conquer the world’s waters
Francesco Mattei, Anna E. Hickman, Julia Uitz, Louison Dufour, Vincenzo Vellucci, Laurence Garczarek, Frédéric Partensky, Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2025), Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography, Science Advances, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adr9609 Continue reading Chromatic acclimation shapes phytoplankton biogeography
New findings illuminate how Prochlorococcus’ nightly “cross-feeding” plays a role in regulating the ocean’s capacity to cycle and store carbon. Continue reading An Abundant Phytoplankton Feeds a Global Network of Marine Microbes
Alexandra E. Jones-Kellett, Jesse C. McNichol, Yubin Raut, Kelsy R. Cain, François Ribalet, E. Virginia Armbrust, Michael J. Follows, and Jed A. Fuhrman (2024), Amplicon Sequencing with Internal Standards Yields Accurate Picocyanobacteria Cell Abundances as Validated with Flow Cytometry, ISME Communications, doi: 10.1093/ismeco/ycae115 Continue reading Amplicon Sequencing with Internal Standards Yields Accurate Picocyanobacteria Cell Abundances as Validated with Flow Cytometry
Stephanie I. Anderson, Clara Fronda, Andrew D. Barton, Sophie Clayton, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2023), Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean, Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.17093 Continue reading Phytoplankton thermal trait parameterization alters community structure and biogeochemical processes in a modeled ocean
Enrico Ser-Giacomi, Ricardo Martinez-Garcia, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, and Michael J. Follows (2023), A Lagrangian model for drifting ecosystems reveals heterogeneity-driven enhancement of marine plankton blooms, Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-41469-2 Continue reading A Lagrangian model for drifting ecosystems reveals heterogeneity-driven enhancement of marine plankton blooms
Niall McGinty, Andrew J. Irwin, Zoe V. Finkel and Stephanie Dutkiewicz (2023), Using ecological partitions to assess zooplankton biogeography and seasonality, Front. Mar. Res., doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.989770 Continue reading Using ecological partitions to assess zooplankton biogeography and seasonality
Keisuke Inomura, Juan José Pierella Karlusich, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Curtis Deutsch, Paul J. Harrison, Chris Bowler (2023), High Growth Rate of Diatoms Explained by Reduced Carbon Requirement and Low Energy Cost of Silica Deposition, Microbiology Spectrum, doi: 10.1128/spectrum.03311-22
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Anne Willem Omta, Elizabeth A. Heiny, Harshana Rajakaruna, David Talmy, Michael J. Follows (2023), Trophic model closure influences ecosystem response to enrichment, Ecological Modelling, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110183 Continue reading Trophic model closure influences ecosystem response to enrichment
Archibald, K., C. Laufkotter, S. Dutkiewicz, H. Moeller (2022), Thermal responses in global marine planktonic food webs mediated through temperature effects on metabolism, JGR Oceans, doi: 10.1029/2022JC018932
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