The role of phytoplankton diversity in the emergent oceanic stoichiometry

Bonachela, Juan A. and Klausmeier, Christopher A. and Edwards, Kyle and Litchman, Elena and Levin, Simon A. (2016) The role of phytoplankton diversity in the emergent oceanic stoichiometry. Journal of Plankton Research, 38 (4). pp. 1021-1035. ISSN 0142-7873 (https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbv087)

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Abstract

Marine phytoplankton are a taxonomically and functionally diverse group of organisms that are key players in the most important biogeochemical cycles. Phytoplankton taxa show different resource utilization strategies (e.g. nutrient-uptake rates and cellular allocation) and traits. Therefore, acknowledging this diversity is crucial to understanding how elemental cycles operate, including the origin and dynamics of elemental ratios. In this paper, we focus on trait-based models as tools to study the role of phytoplankton diversity in the stoichiometric phenomenology observed in the laboratory and in the open ocean. We offer a compilation of known empirical results on stoichiometry and summarize how trait-based approaches have attempted to replicate these results. By contrasting the different ecological and evolutionary approaches available in the literature, we explore the strengths and limitations of the existing models. We thus try to identify existing gaps and challenges, and point to potential new directions that can be explored to fill these gaps. We aim to highlight the potential of including diversity explicitly in our modeling approaches, which can help us gain important knowledge about changes in local and global stoichiometric patterns.

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Bonachela, Juan A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3316-8120, Klausmeier, Christopher A., Edwards, Kyle, Litchman, Elena and Levin, Simon A.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:56427
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    31 August 2016
    Published
    19 October 2015
    Published Online
    8 September 2015
    Accepted
    Notes:This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Journal of Plankton Research following peer review. The version of record Bonachela, J. A., Klausmeier, C. A., Edwards, K., Litchman, . E., & Levin, S. A. (2015). The role of phytoplankton diversity in the emergent oceanic stoichiometry. Journal of Plankton Research is available online at: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/10/26/plankt.fbv087.abstract
    Subjects:Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > Human ecology. Anthropogeography
    Department:Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:19 May 2016 09:30
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:18
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56427
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