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Marine mixotrophy increases trophic transfer efficiency, mean organism size, and vertical carbon flux by Ward, Ben A., Follows, Michael J.

“…Mixotrophic plankton, which combine the uptake of inorganic resources and the ingestion of living prey, are ubiquitous in marine ecosystems, but their…”
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Temperature-Correlated Changes in Phytoplankton Community Structure Are Restricted to Polar Waters by Ward, Ben A

“…Globally distributed observations of size-fractionated chlorophyll a and temperature were used to incorporate temperature dependence into an existing…”
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Environmental control of marine phytoplankton stoichiometry in the North Atlantic Ocean by Sauterey, Boris, Ward, Ben A

“…The stoichiometric coupling of carbon to limiting nutrients in marine phytoplankton regulates the magnitude of biological carbon sequestration in the ocean…”
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Iron, phosphorus, and nitrogen supply ratios define the biogeography of nitrogen fixation by Ward, Ben A., Dutkiewicz, Stephanie, Moore, C. Mark, Follows, Michael J.

“…We present a unified conceptual framework describing the competition between diazotrophs and non–nitrogen-fixing marine plankton and their interaction with…”
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Dimensions of marine phytoplankton diversity by Dutkiewicz, Stephanie, Cermeno, Pedro, Jahn, Oliver, Follows, Michael J, Hickman, Anna E, Taniguchi, Darcy A. A, Ward, Ben A

“…Biodiversity of phytoplankton is important for ecosystem stability and marine biogeochemistry. However, the large-scale patterns of diversity are not well…”
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biogeography of marine plankton traits by Barton, Andrew D, Pershing, Andrew J, Litchman, Elena, Record, Nicholas R, Edwards, Kyle F, Finkel, Zoe V, Kiørboe, Thomas, Ward, Ben A, Elser, James

“…Changes in marine plankton communities driven by environmental variability impact the marine food web and global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and other…”
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The impact of marine nutrient abundance on early eukaryotic ecosystems by Reinhard, Christopher T., Planavsky, Noah J., Ward, Ben A., Love, Gordon D., Le Hir, Guillaume, Ridgwell, Andy

“…The rise of eukaryotes to ecological prominence represents one of the most dramatic shifts in the history of Earth's biosphere. However, there is an enigmatic…”
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On the roles of cell size and trophic strategy in North Atlantic diatom and dinoflagellate communities by Barton, Andrew D., Finkel, Zoe V., Ward, Ben A., Johns, David G., Follows, Michael J.

“…We have examined the inter- and intra-group seasonal succession of 113 diatom and dinoflagellate taxa, as surveyed by the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) in…”
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Biophysical Aspects of Resource Acquisition and Competition in Algal Mixotrophs by Ward, Ben A., Dutkiewicz, Stephanie, Barton, Andrew D., Follows, Michael J.

“…Mixotrophic organisms combine autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition and are abundant in both freshwater and marine environments. Recent observations indicate…”
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Mixotroph ecology: More than the sum of its parts by Ward, Ben A.

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Rapid evolution allows coexistence of highly divergent lineages within the same niche by Ward, Ben A., Collins, Sinead

“…Marine microbial communities are extremely complex and diverse. The number of locally coexisting species often vastly exceeds the number of identifiable…”
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Physiological and morphological plasticity in response to nitrogen availability of a yeast widely distributed in the open ocean by Diver, Poppy, Ward, Ben A, Cunliffe, Michael

“…Yeasts are prevalent in the open ocean, yet we have limited understanding of their ecophysiological adaptations, including their response to nitrogen…”
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How phytoplankton compete for nutrients despite vast intercellular separation by Ward, Ben A

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Modelling spatial and temporal patterns in size-structured marine plankton communities: top-down and bottom-up controls by WARD, Ben A, DUTKIEWICZ, Stephanie, FOLLOWS, Michael J

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Selective constraints on global plankton dispersal by Ward, Ben A., Cael, B. B., Collins, Sinead, Young, C. Robert

“…Marine microbial communities are highly interconnected assemblages of organisms shaped by ecological drift, natural selection, and dispersal. The relative…”
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Assessing an efficient “Instant Acclimation” approximation of dynamic phytoplankton stoichiometry by Ward, Ben A.

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The Size Dependence of Phytoplankton Growth Rates: A Trade-Off between Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism by Ward, Ben A., Marañón, Emilio, Sauterey, Boris, Rault, Jonathan, Claessen, David

“…Rates of metabolism and population growth are often assumed to decrease universally with increasing organism size. Recent observations have shown, however,…”
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Linking Plankton Size Spectra and Community Composition to Carbon Export and Its Efficiency by Serra‐Pompei, Camila, Ward, Ben A., Pinti, Jérôme, Visser, André W., Kiørboe, Thomas, Andersen, Ken H.

“…The magnitude and efficiency of particulate carbon export from the ocean surface depends not only on net primary production (NPP) but also on how carbon is…”
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Reviews and syntheses: parameter identification in marine planktonic ecosystem modelling by Schartau, Markus, Wallhead, Philip, Hemmings, John, Löptien, Ulrike, Kriest, Iris, Krishna, Shubham, Ward, Ben A, Slawig, Thomas, Oschlies, Andreas

“…To describe the underlying processes involved in oceanic plankton dynamics is crucial for the determination of energy and mass flux through an ecosystem and…”
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Parameter optimisation techniques and the problem of underdetermination in marine biogeochemical models by Ward, Ben A., Friedrichs, Marjorie A.M., Anderson, Thomas R., Oschlies, Andreas

“…Parameter values in marine biogeochemical models can strongly affect model performance, but can be hard to define accurately and precisely. When making…”
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