TITLE. Picophytoplankton physiology and the microbial loop.

READING LIST.

Reviews:

• Veldhuis, M. J. W., K. R. Timmermans, P. Croot, B. van der Wagt (2005) Picoplankton; a comparative study of their biochemical composition and photosynthetic properties. J. Sea Res. 53 7-24
• Raven JA (1998) The twelfth Tansley Lecture. Small is beautiful: the picophytoplankton. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 12 (4) 503-513

Physiology studies

• Timmermans et al. (2005) Physiological responses of three species of marine pico-phytoplankton to ammonium, phosphate, iron and light limitation. J. Sea Res. 53 109-120
• F. Partensky et al. (1993) Photoacclimation of Prochlorococcus sp. (Prochlorophyta) strains isolated from the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Plant Physiol. 101: 285-296
• E. T. Buitenhuis, T. Pangerc, D. Franklin, C. Le Quéré, G. Malin. Growth rates of six coccolithophorid strains as a function of temperature. Limnology and Oceanography 53 (3) 1181-1185

Observations and modelling of biogeography

• Johnson et al. (2006) Niche partitioning among Prochlorococcus ecotypes along ocean-scale environmental gradients. Science 311 1737-1740
• Alvain, S., C. Moulin, Y.Dandonneau, F. M. Breon (2005) Remote sensing of phytoplankton groups in case 1 waters from global SeaWiFS imagery. DSR I 52:1989-2004 10.1016/j.dsr.2005.06.015
• Uitz, J., H. Claustre, A. Morel, S. B. Hooker (2006) Vertical distribution of phytoplankton communities in open ocean: an assessment based on surface chlorophyll. Journal of Geophysical Research Vol. 111 C08005, doi: 10.1029/2005JC003207
• Follows M. J., S. Dutkiewicz, S. Grant, S. W. Chisholm (2007) Emergent biogeography of microbial communities in a model ocean. Science 315 1843-1846 10.1126/science.1138544

The PlankTOM Dynamic Green Ocean Model Publications

• Corinne Le Quéré, Sandy P. Harrison, I. Colin Prentice, Erik T. Buitenhuis, Olivier Aumont, Laurent Bopp, Hervé Claustre, Leticia Cotrim da Cunha, Richard Geider, Xavier Giraud, Christine Klaas, Karen E. Kohfeld, Louis Legendre, Manfredi Manizza, Trevor Platt, Richard B. Rivkin, Shubha Sathyendranath, Julia Uitz, Andy J. Watson, Dieter Wolf-Gladrow (2005) Ecosystem dynamics based on plankton functional types for global ocean biogeochemistry models. Global Change Biology.
• Erik T. Buitenhuis, Corinne Le Quéré, Olivier Aumont, Gregory Beaugrand, Adrian Bunker, Andrew Hirst, Tsutomu Ikeda, Todd O'Brien, Sergey Piontkovski, Dietmar Straile (2006) Biogeochemical fluxes through mesozooplankton. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 2005GB002511