Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity

Dutkiewicz, Stephanie; Cermeno, Pedro; Jahn, Oliver; Follows, Michael J.; Hickman, Anna E.; Taniguchi, Darcy A. A.; Ward, Ben A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-609-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-609-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-609-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

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07 Feb 2020

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Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Pedro Cermeno, Oliver Jahn, Michael J. Follows, Anna E. Hickman, Darcy A. A. Taniguchi, and Ben A. Ward

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Phytoplankton are an essential component of the marine food web and earth's carbon cycle. We use observations, ecological theory and a unique trait-based ecosystem model to explain controls on patterns of marine phytoplankton biodiversity. We find that different dimensions of diversity (size classes, biogeochemical functional groups, thermal norms) are controlled by a disparate combination of mechanisms. This may explain why previous studies of phytoplankton diversity had conflicting results.