blooms

Functional group-specific traits drive phytoplankton dynamics in the oligotrophic ocean

A diverse microbial assemblage in the ocean is responsible for nearly half of global primary production. It has been hypothesized and experimentally demonstrated that nutrient loading can stimulate blooms of large eukaryotic phytoplankton in …

Sixty Years of Sverdrup: A Retrospective of Progress in the Study of Phytoplankton Blooms

One of the most dramatic large-scale features in the ocean is the seasonal greening of the North Atlantic in spring and summer due to the accumulation of phytoplankton biomass in the surface layer. In 1953, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup hypothesized a now …