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| Maranon, Emilio; Cermeno, Pedro; Latasa, Mikel; Tadonleke, Remy D.. |
| We conducted a meta-analysis of temperature, phytoplankton size structure, and productivity in cold, temperate, and warm waters of the world's oceans. Our data set covers all combinations of temperature and resource availability, thus allowing us to disentangle their effects. The partitioning of biomass between different size classes is independent of temperature, but depends strongly on the rate of resource use as reflected in the rate of primary production. Temperature and primary production explained 2% and 62%, respectively, of the variability in the contribution of microphytoplankton to total biomass. This contribution increases rapidly with total biomass and productivity, reaching values > 80% when chlorophyll a concentration is > 2 mu g L-1 or... |
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| Ano: 2012 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00265/37624/36984.pdf |
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