Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1232-1244 (13 pages) Temperature strongly affects phytoplankton growth rates, but its effect on communities and ecosystem processes is debated.
Like land plants, phytoplankton form the base of the marine food web ... Scientists estimate there are around 100,000 plankton species in the sea. Plankton communities vary throughout the ...
Most scaling relationships are the same for freshwater and marine species, although important differences exist ... size or taxonomic group to structure physiological variation in phytoplankton ...
Phytoplankton are microscopic, photosynthetic organisms that form the foundation of the marine food web ... The datat helped in identification high-productivity oceanic regions in extratropical ...