Macroscale patterns of oceanic zooplankton composition and size structure. Brandao, M. C., Benedetti, F., Martini, S., Soviadan, Y. D., Irisson, J. O., Romagnan, J. B., Elineau, A., Desnos, C., Jalabert, L., Freire, A. S., Picheral, M., Guidi, L., Gorsky, G., Bowler, C., Karp-Boss, L., Henry, N., de Vargas, C., Sullivan, M. B., Tara Oceans Consortium, C., Stemmann, L., & Lombard, F. Sci Rep, 11(1):15714, 2021. Brandao, Manoela C Benedetti, Fabio Martini, Severine Soviadan, Yawouvi Dodji Irisson, Jean-Olivier Romagnan, Jean-Baptiste Elineau, Amanda Desnos, Corinne Jalabert, Laetitia Freire, Andrea S Picheral, Marc Guidi, Lionel Gorsky, Gabriel Bowler, Chris Karp-Boss, Lee Henry, Nicolas de Vargas, Colomban Sullivan, Matthew B Stemmann, Lars Lombard, Fabien eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England Sci Rep. 2021 Aug 3;11(1):15714. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94615-5.
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Ocean plankton comprise organisms from viruses to fish larvae that are fundamental to ecosystem functioning and the provision of marine services such as fisheries and CO2 sequestration. The latter services are partly governed by variations in plankton community composition and the expression of traits such as body size at community-level. While community assembly has been thoroughly studied for the smaller end of the plankton size spectrum, the larger end comprises ectotherms that are often studied at the species, or group-level, rather than as communities. The body size of marine ectotherms decreases with temperature, but controls on community-level traits remain elusive, hindering the predictability of marine services provision. Here, we leverage Tara Oceans datasets to determine how zooplankton community composition and size structure varies with latitude, temperature and productivity-related covariates in the global surface ocean. Zooplankton abundance and median size decreased towards warmer and less productive environments, as a result of changes in copepod composition. However, some clades displayed the opposite relationships, which may be ascribed to alternative feeding strategies. Given that climate models predict increasingly warmed and stratified oceans, our findings suggest that zooplankton communities will shift towards smaller organisms which might weaken their contribution to the biological carbon pump.
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   author = {Brandao, M. C. and Benedetti, F. and Martini, S. and Soviadan, Y. D. and Irisson, J. O. and Romagnan, J. B. and Elineau, A. and Desnos, C. and Jalabert, L. and Freire, A. S. and Picheral, M. and Guidi, L. and Gorsky, G. and Bowler, C. and Karp-Boss, L. and Henry, N. and de Vargas, C. and Sullivan, M. B. and Tara Oceans Consortium, Coordinators and Stemmann, L. and Lombard, F.},
   title = {Macroscale patterns of oceanic zooplankton composition and size structure},
   journal = {Sci Rep},
   volume = {11},
   number = {1},
   pages = {15714},
   note = {Brandao, Manoela C
Benedetti, Fabio
Martini, Severine
Soviadan, Yawouvi Dodji
Irisson, Jean-Olivier
Romagnan, Jean-Baptiste
Elineau, Amanda
Desnos, Corinne
Jalabert, Laetitia
Freire, Andrea S
Picheral, Marc
Guidi, Lionel
Gorsky, Gabriel
Bowler, Chris
Karp-Boss, Lee
Henry, Nicolas
de Vargas, Colomban
Sullivan, Matthew B
Stemmann, Lars
Lombard, Fabien
eng
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
England
Sci Rep. 2021 Aug 3;11(1):15714. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94615-5.},
   abstract = {Ocean plankton comprise organisms from viruses to fish larvae that are fundamental to ecosystem functioning and the provision of marine services such as fisheries and CO2 sequestration. The latter services are partly governed by variations in plankton community composition and the expression of traits such as body size at community-level. While community assembly has been thoroughly studied for the smaller end of the plankton size spectrum, the larger end comprises ectotherms that are often studied at the species, or group-level, rather than as communities. The body size of marine ectotherms decreases with temperature, but controls on community-level traits remain elusive, hindering the predictability of marine services provision. Here, we leverage Tara Oceans datasets to determine how zooplankton community composition and size structure varies with latitude, temperature and productivity-related covariates in the global surface ocean. Zooplankton abundance and median size decreased towards warmer and less productive environments, as a result of changes in copepod composition. However, some clades displayed the opposite relationships, which may be ascribed to alternative feeding strategies. Given that climate models predict increasingly warmed and stratified oceans, our findings suggest that zooplankton communities will shift towards smaller organisms which might weaken their contribution to the biological carbon pump.},
   ISSN = {2045-2322 (Electronic)
2045-2322 (Linking)},
   DOI = {10.1038/s41598-021-94615-5},
   url = {https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34344925},
   year = {2021},
   type = {Journal Article}
}

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