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Increasing importance of small phytoplankton in a warmer ocean
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The macroecological relationships among marine phytoplankton total cell density, community size structure and temperature have lacked a theoretical explanation. The tiniest members of this planktonic group comprise cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae smaller than 2 μm in diameter, collectively known as picophytoplankton. We combine here two ecological rules, the temperature–size relationship with the allometric size‐scaling of population abundance to explain a remarkably consistent pattern of increasing picophytoplankton biomass with temperature over the −0.6 to 22 °C range in a merged dataset obtained in the eastern and western temperate North Atlantic Ocean across a diverse range of environmental conditions. Our results show that temperature alone was able to explain 73% of the variance in the relative contribution of small cells to total phytoplankton biomass regardless of differences in trophic status or inorganic nutrient loading. Our analysis predicts a gradual shift toward smaller primary producers in a warmer ocean. Because the fate of photosynthesized organic carbon largely depends on phytoplankton size, we anticipate future alterations in the functioning of oceanic ecosystems.
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Metadata
- Authors
- MORÁN, X. A. G., LÓPEZ‐URRUTIA, Á., CALVO‐DÍAZ, A., & LI, W. K. W.
- Venue
- Global Change Biology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-01-31
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1137-1144
- ISSN
- 1354-1013 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2486
- OpenAlex
- W1979957360
- Cited by
- 607
- References
- 40
- FWCI
- 13.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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