Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

Abstract Photosynthesis fuels primary production at the base of marine food webs. Yet, in many surface ocean ecosystems, diel-driven primary production is tightly coupled to daily loss. This tight coupling raises the question: which top-down drivers predominate in maintaining persistently stable pic...

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Main Authors: Stephen J. Beckett, David Demory, Ashley R. Coenen, John R. Casey, Mathilde Dugenne, Christopher L. Follett, Paige Connell, Michael C. G. Carlson, Sarah K. Hu, Samuel T. Wilson, Daniel Muratore, Rogelio A. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Shengyun Peng, Kevin W. Becker, Daniel R. Mende, E. Virginia Armbrust, David A. Caron, Debbie Lindell, Angelicque E. White, François Ribalet, Joshua S. Weitz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46165-3