A new study found that microbes in the Sargasso Sea divide nutrients throughout their communities over time, supporting ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1232-1244 (13 pages) Temperature strongly affects phytoplankton growth rates, but its effect on communities and ecosystem processes is debated.

In Lake Vesijärvi, water fleas generally consume the available phytoplankton community without strong selectivity, whereas calanoid copepods are highly selective in their choice of algal groups.