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Phytoplankton

Free-floating minute organisms that are photosynthetic. The term is non-taxonomic and refers to a lifestyle (energy utilization and motility), rather… 
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Aquatic OrganismsChlorophytaCyanobacteriaDiatoms

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Targeted metagenomics and ecology of globally important uncultured eukaryotic phytoplankton
Among eukaryotes, four major phytoplankton lineages are responsible for marine photosynthesis; prymnesiophytes, alveolates… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Phytoplankton, not allochthonous carbon, sustains herbivorous zooplankton production
Terrestrial organic matter inputs have long been thought to play an important role in aquatic food web dynamics. Results from… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Phytoplankton community ecology: principles applied in San Francisco Bay
In his seminal 1961 paper 'The paradox of the plankton' Am Nat 95:137-147, G. E. Hutchinson asked why many species of… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Transport and degradation of phytoplankton in permeable sediment
In flume and field experiments we demonstrate that interfacial water flows, generated when bottom currents interact with sea bed… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
A review of the Si cycle in the modern ocean: recent progress and missing gaps in the application of biogenic opal as a paleoproductivity proxy
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Widespread iron limitation of phytoplankton in the south pacific ocean
Diel fluorescence patterns were discovered in phytoplankton sampled over 7000 kilometers of the South Pacific Ocean that appear… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
High turnover rates of dissolved organic carbon during a spring phytoplankton bloom
OCEANIC dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is one of the Earth's largest carbon reservoirs, but until recently its role in the carbon… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Direct Coupling of Marine Invertebrate Spawning with Phytoplankton Blooms
Spawning of green sea urchins and blue mussels may be triggered by a heat-stable metabolite released by various species of… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Lipid composition and food quality of some freshwater phytoplankton for cladoceran zooplankters
The nutritional value of several planktonic algae was tested by means of feeding trials with three cladoceran zooplankters. The… 
Highly Cited
1970
Highly Cited
1970
The suspension and sinking of phytoplankton in the sea
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