Ecological forces affecting microbial eukaryotes in the coastal ocean

Marine microbial eukaryotes (protists) play a central role in the global biogeochemical cycles. Protist communities comprise carbon-fixing eukaryotic phytoplankton, which comprise the base of the marine food web, heterotrophic protists, which are predators of other microbes, and mixotrophs, which en...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gomez, Annika L.
Other Authors: Cordero, Otto X.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/156936