Phytoplankton biogeography and community stability in the ocean.

BACKGROUND: Despite enormous environmental variability linked to glacial/interglacial climates of the Pleistocene, we have recently shown that marine diatom communities evolved slowly through gradual changes over the past 1.5 million years. Identifying the causes of this ecological stability is key...

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Main Authors: Pedro Cermeño, Colomban de Vargas, Fátima Abrantes, Paul G Falkowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2848864?pdf=render