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CO2, the greenhouse effect and global warming: from the pioneering work of Arrhenius and Callendar to today's Earth System Models by Anderson, Thomas R., Hawkins, Ed, Jones, Philip D.

“…•The climate system is complex but with a simple core, the laws of radiative transfer.•These laws are incorporated in Earth System Models (ESMs), with climate…”
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Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean’s twilight zone by Giering, Sarah L. C., Sanders, Richard, Lampitt, Richard S., Anderson, Thomas R., Tamburini, Christian, Boutrif, Mehdi, Zubkov, Mikhail V., Marsay, Chris M., Henson, Stephanie A., Saw, Kevin, Cook, Kathryn, Mayor, Daniel J.

“…The discrepancy between the components of the oceanic carbon budget — export of carbon from the surface and its conversion into carbon dioxide by water-column…”
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Excess Carbon in Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems: Physiological, Ecological, and Evolutionary Implications by Hessen, Dag O., Anderson, Thomas R.

“…Cells and organisms, both autotrophs and heterotrophs, commonly face imbalanced access to and uptake of elements relative to their requirements. C is often in…”
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Metabolic Stoichiometry and the Fate of Excess Carbon and Nutrients in Consumers by Anderson, Thomas R., Hessen, Dag O., Elser, James J., Urabe, Jotaro

“…Animals encountering nutritionally imbalanced foods should release elements in excess of requirements in order to maintain overall homeostasis. Quantifying…”
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Influence of grazing formulations on the emergent properties of a complex ecosystem model in a global ocean general circulation model by Anderson, Thomas R, Gentleman, Wendy C, Sinha, Bablu

“…Sensitivity to nonlinear equations may be a characteristic feature of biological models, particularly those that are complex. A complex marine ecosystem model…”
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Carbon cycling and POC turnover in the mesopelagic zone of the ocean: Insights from a simple model by Anderson, Thomas R., Tang, Kam W.

“…Carbon budgets of the mesopelagic zone are poorly constrained, highlighting our lack of understanding of the biota that inhabit this environment and their role…”
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Grazing, egg production and carbon budgets for Calanus finmarchicus across the Fram Strait by Jenkins, Holly E., Atherden, Florence, Cook, Kathryn B., Anderson, Thomas R., Thornton, Barry, Mitchell, Elaine, Jacob, Elodie, Mayor, Daniel J.

“…Calanoid copepods comprise around 90% of Arctic zooplankton biomass and are fundamental to the ecological and biogeochemical functioning of high-latitude…”
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Geometric Stoichiometry: Unifying Concepts of Animal Nutrition to Understand How Protein-Rich Diets Can Be “Too Much of a Good Thing” by Anderson, Thomas R., Raubenheimer, David, Hessen, Dag O., Jensen, Kim, Gentleman, Wendy C., Mayor, Daniel J.

“…Understanding the factors that control the growth of heterotrophic organisms is central to predicting food web interactions and biogeochemical cycling within…”
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Quantifying the roles of food intake and stored lipid for growth and development throughout the life cycle of a high-latitude copepod, and consequences for ocean carbon sequestration by Anderson, Thomas R., Hessen, Dag O., Gentleman, Wendy C., Yool, Andrew, Mayor, Daniel J.

“…Copepods are a critical component of ocean ecosystems, providing an important link between phytoplankton and higher trophic levels as well as regulating…”
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Is the growth of marine copepods limited by food quantity or quality? by Anderson, Thomas R., Hessen, Dag O., Mayor, Daniel J.

“…Understanding what limits the growth of marine copepods is important for modeling food web dynamics and biogeochemical cycles in the ocean. We use a…”
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Absorption efficiencies and basal turnover of C, N and fatty acids in a marine Calanoid copepod by Mayor, Daniel J., Cook, Kathryn, Thornton, Barry, Walsham, Pamela, Witte, Ursula F. M., Zuur, Alain F., Anderson, Thomas R.

“…1. Marine copepods of the genus Calanus can reproduce prior to the spring bloom in the absence of sufficient food. Their starvation physiology, and hence the…”
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Sensitivity of secondary production and export flux to choice of trophic transfer formulation in marine ecosystem models by Anderson, Thomas R., Hessen, Dag O., Mitra, Aditee, Mayor, Daniel J., Yool, Andrew

“…The performance of four contemporary formulations describing trophic transfer, which have strongly contrasting assumptions as regards the way that consumer…”
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Comparison of the emergent behavior of a complex ecosystem model in two ocean general circulation models by Sinha, Bablu, Buitenhuis, Erik T., Quéré, Corinne Le, Anderson, Thomas R.

“…A state-of-the-art complex marine ecosystem model, PlankTOM5.2, simulating the distribution of five plankton functional types (PFTs; mixed phytoplankton,…”
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Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton by Bell, Michael V., Dick, James R., Anderson, Thomas R., Pond, David W.

“…We investigated the ability of four species of marine zooplankton to synthesize polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) during pulse-chase tracer experiments…”
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Microbial gardening in the ocean's twilight zone: Detritivorous metazoans benefit from fragmenting, rather than ingesting, sinking detritus by Mayor, Daniel J., Sanders, Richard, Giering, Sarah L. C., Anderson, Thomas R.

“…Sinking organic particles transfer ∼10 gigatonnes of carbon into the deep ocean each year, keeping the atmospheric CO2 concentration significantly lower than…”
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Ocean carbon sequestration: Particle fragmentation by copepods as a significant unrecognised factor?: Explicitly representing the role of copepods in biogeochemical models may fundamentally improve understanding of future ocean carbon storage by Mayor, Daniel J, Gentleman, Wendy C, Anderson, Thomas R

“…Ocean biology helps regulate global climate by fixing atmospheric CO and exporting it to deep waters as sinking detrital particles. New observations…”
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Threshold elemental ratios for carbon versus phosphorus limitation in Daphnia by ANDERSON, THOMAS R., HESSEN, DAG O.

“…Summary 1. The transition from carbon (C) to phosphorus (P) limited growth in Daphnia depends not only on the C : P ratio in seston, i.e. food quality, but…”
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Plankton functional type modelling: running before we can walk? by ANDERSON, Thomas R

“…Biogeochemical cycling in marine systems is intimately linked to the activity of specific plankton functional types (PFTs) such as diatoms, coccolithophores…”
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Quantifying carbon fluxes from primary production to mesopelagic fish using a simple food web model by Anderson, Thomas R, Martin, Adrian P, Lampitt, Richard S, Trueman, Clive N, Henson, Stephanie A, Mayor, Daniel J

“…Abstract An ecosystem-based flow analysis model was used to study carbon transfer from primary production (PP) to mesopelagic fish via three groups of…”
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Optimal phenology of life history events in Calanus finmarchicus : exit from diapause in relation to interannual variation in spring bloom timing and predation by Anderson, Thomas R, Hessen, Dag O, Gentleman, Wendy C, Yool, Andrew, Mayor, Daniel J

“…Respiration of lipids by copepods during diapause (overwintering dormancy) contributes to ocean carbon sequestration via the seasonal lipid pump (SLP)…”
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