Recurring seasonality exposes dominant species and niche partitioning strategies of open ocean picoeukaryotic algae
Charlotte A. Eckmann,
Charles Bachy,
Fabian Wittmers
et al.
Abstract:Ocean spring phytoplankton blooms are dynamic periods important to global primary production. We document vertical patterns of a diverse suite of eukaryotic algae, the prasinophytes, in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre with monthly sampling over four years at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site. Water column structure was used to delineate seasonal stability periods more ecologically relevant than seasons defined by calendar dates. During winter mixing, tiny prasinophytes dominated by Class II compr… Show more
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