Eckart Zöllner

TL;DR: It is shown that dissolved inorganic carbon consumption of a natural plankton community maintained in mesocosm enclosures at initial CO2 partial pressures increases with rising CO2, and the observed responses have implications for a variety of marine biological and biogeochemical processes, and underscore the importance of biologically driven feedbacks in the ocean to global change.

TL;DR: It is shown, using an indoor-mesocosm approach, that rising temperature accelerates respiratory consumption of organic carbon relative to autotrophic production in a natural plankton community, and decreased the biological drawdown of dissolved inorganic carbon in the surface layer by up to 31%.

TL;DR: The experiment demonstrated that zooplankton-mediated predatory interactions cascade down to the bacterial level, but also revealed that changes occurred rather slowly in this summer plankton community and were most pronounced with respect to bacterial activity and composition.

TL;DR: The strong difference between the Acceleration of the phytoplankton peak and the acceleration of the nauplii could be one of the “Achilles heels” of pelagic systems subject to climate change.

TL;DR: The first evidence for marine production of monoterpenes was provided by laboratory incubation experiments and shipboard measurements in the Southern Atlantic Ocean as discussed by the authors, where nine marine phytoplankton monocultures were investigated using a GC-MS equipped with an enantiomerically-selective column and found to emit monoterbenes including (−)-/(+)-pinene, limonene and p-ocimene, all of which were previously thought to be exclusively of terrestrial origin.