In situ imaging reveals the biomass of giant protists in the global ocean
@article{Biard2016InSI, title={In situ imaging reveals the biomass of giant protists in the global ocean}, author={Tristan Biard and Lars Stemmann and Marc Picheral and Nicolas Mayot and Pieter Vandromme and Helena Hauss and Gabriel Gorsky and Lionel Guidi and Rainer Kiko and Fabrice Not}, journal={Nature}, year={2016}, volume={532}, pages={504-507} }
Planktonic organisms play crucial roles in oceanic food webs and global biogeochemical cycles. Most of our knowledge about the ecological impact of large zooplankton stems from research on abundant and robust crustaceans, and in particular copepods. A number of the other organisms that comprise planktonic communities are fragile, and therefore hard to sample and quantify, meaning that their abundances and effects on oceanic ecosystems are poorly understood. Here, using data from a worldwide in…
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