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A meta-analysis on environmental drivers of marine phytoplankton C : N : P
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
Katsumi Matsumoto
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, USA
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We conducted an extensive literature survey (meta-analysis) on how the C : N : P ratio varies with change in key environmental drivers. We found that the expected reduction in nutrients and warming under the future climate change scenario is likely to result in increased C : P and C : N of marine phytoplankton. Further, our findings highlight the greater stoichiometric plasticity of eukaryotes over prokaryotes, which provide us insights on how to understand and model plankton.
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