Articles | Volume 20, issue 15
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3273-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3273-2023
Research article
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11 Aug 2023
Research article |  | 11 Aug 2023

Sub-frontal niches of plankton communities driven by transport and trophic interactions at ocean fronts

Inès Mangolte, Marina Lévy, Clément Haëck, and Mark D. Ohman

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Ocean fronts are ecological hotspots, associated with higher diversity and biomass for many marine organisms, from bacteria to whales. Using in situ data from the California Current Ecosystem, we show that far from being limited to the production of diatom blooms, fronts are the scene of complex biophysical couplings between biotic interactions (growth, competition, and predation) and transport by currents that generate planktonic communities with an original taxonomic and spatial structure.
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