Phytoplankton in theTaraOcean

2020/01/03 by Juan José Pierella Karlusich, Federico M. Ibarbalz, Chris Bowler · 2 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Marine and coastal ecosystems #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Marine Biology and Ecology Research

paper · pdf · doi:10.1146/annurev-marine-010419-010706

openalex publication_date 2020/01/03 · openalex created_date 2020/01/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

Photosynthesis evolved in the ocean more than 2 billion years ago and is now performed by a wide range of evolutionarily distinct organisms, including both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Our appreciation of their abundance, distributions, and contributions to primary production in the ocean has been increasing since they were first discovered in the seventeenth century and has now been enhanced by data emerging from the Tara Oceans project, which performed a comprehensive worldwide sampling of plankton in the upper layers of the ocean between 2009 and 2013. Largely using recent data from Tara Oceans, here we review the geographic distributions of phytoplankton in the global ocean and their diversity, abundance, and standing stock biomass. We also discuss how omics-based information can be incorporated into studies of photosynthesis in the ocean and show the likely importance of mixotrophs and photosymbionts.

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