You will be redirected to our submission process. Marine phytoplankton are the base of marine food webs and are a food source for many marine species, such as bivalves, crustaceans, fish, and whales.

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 ...

Harmful algal blooms in Maine typically occur between April and October, but the species of phytoplankton that causes Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning, Pseudo-nitzschia, has bloomed in recent years during ...

Marine photosynthetic microorganisms ... acting as rapid vectors of contaminants and invasive species across the global ocean. In this Research Topic, we address the diversity and adaptation of ...

The port construction caused significant changes to the phytoplankton community with a strong influence of marine species (mainly dinoflagellate) because of the opening of the reef near the river ...