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| Landeira, Jose Maria; Ferron, Bruno; Lunven, Michel; Morin, Pascal; Marie, Louis; Sourisseau, Marc. |
| Phytoplankton blooms are usually dominated by chain-forming diatom species that can alter food pathways from primary producers to predators by reducing the interactions between intermediate trophic levels. The food-web modifications are determined by the length of the chains; however, the estimation is biased because traditional sampling strategies damage the chains and, therefore, change the phytoplankton size structure. Sedimentological studies around oceanic fronts have shown high concentrations of giant diatom mats (>1 cm in length), suggesting that the size of diatom chains is underestimated in the pelagic realm. Here, we investigate the variability in size and abundance of phytoplankton chains at the Ushant tidal front (NW France) using the Video... |
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| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00186/29730/28148.pdf |
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