Journal: Journal of Plankton Research

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J. plankton res.

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Oxford University Press

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0142-7873
1464-3774

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  • Lake origin determines Daphnia population growth under winter conditions
    Item type: Journal Article
    Rellstab, Christian; Spaak, Piet (2009)
    Journal of Plankton Research
  • From egg to maturity: a closed system for complete life cycle studies of the holopelagic jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ramondenc, Simon; Ferrieux, Mathilde; Collet, Sophie; et al. (2019)
    Journal of Plankton Research
    Despite its wide spatial distribution and its high abundance in the Mediterranean Sea, the biology and the ecology of the scyphozoan species Pelagia noctiluca remain poorly understood. This is mainly due to difficulties related to sampling and its maintenance in laboratory conditions. Thus, only a few studies exist on the ecophysiology of this jellyfish species under laboratory conditions. As an example, the maximum sizes of individuals obtained in previous culturing systems were not comparable to the ones found in the environment and the authors could not obtain a second generation. Here we present an improved rearing system for P. noctiluca employing a new enclosed system running with artificial seawater. The monitoring of the jellyfish in this new system highlights the importance of the quality of the food sources provided to the cultures, as well as the volume available for jellyfish growth. We obtain adults similar in size to the ones found in the open ocean (>11 cm), and we were able to obtain a second generation, 140 days after the first one. Our system is both less time-consuming and less stressful for the jellyfish.
  • Global gradients in species richness of marine plankton functional groups
    Item type: Journal Article
    Benedetti, Fabio; Gruber, Nicolas; Vogt, Meike (2023)
    Journal of Plankton Research
    The patterns of species diversity of plankton functional groups (PFGs) remain poorly understood although they matter greatly for marine ecosystem functioning. Here, we use an ensemble of empirical species distribution models for 845 plankton species to estimate the global species richness of three phytoplankton and 11 zooplankton functional groups as a function of objectively selected environmental predictors. The annual mean species richness of all PFGs decreases from the low to the high latitudes, but the steepness and the shape of this decrease vary significantly across PFGs. Pteropods, small copepods (Oithonids and Poecilostomatoids) and Salps have the steepest latitudinal gradients, whereas Amphipods and the three phytoplankton groups have the weakest ones. Temperature, irradiance and nutrient concentration are the first-order control on the latitudinal richness patterns, whilst the environmental conditions associated to upwelling systems, boundary currents and oxygen minimum zones modulate the position of the peaks and troughs in richness. The species richness of all PFGs increases with net primary production but decreases with particles size and the efficiency of the biological carbon pump. Our study puts forward emergent biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships and hypotheses about their underlying drivers for future field-based and modelling research.
  • New possibilities arise for studies of hybridization: SNP-based markers for the multi-species Daphnia longispina complex derived from transcriptome data
    Item type: Journal Article
    Rusek, Jakub; Ayan, Goekce B.; Turko, Patrick; et al. (2015)
    Journal of Plankton Research
  • Seasonal variations in the morphology of the coccolithophore Calcidiscus leptoporus off Bermuda (N. Atlantic)
    Item type: Journal Article
    Renaud, Sabrina; Klaas, Christine (2001)
    Journal of Plankton Research
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