Maurizio Ribera d'Alcalà

TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the data collected in the hydrographic surveys of the international collaborative programme POEM (Physical Oceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean) in the period 1986-1987.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present definitive observational evidence that the dramatic change of the Eastern Mediterranean deep circulation observed in winter 1995 and documented by Roether et al. actually started before October 1991 and that the change involved not only the deep water mass pathways but also the origin and pathways of the water mass spreading in the intermediate layer.

TL;DR: Sensing systems for detecting and responding to fluid motion (shear stress), osmotic stress, and iron, a key nutrient that controls diatom abundance in the ocean are revealed.

TL;DR: This review provides a description of the molecular components identified in diatom genomes that are involved in light perception and acclimation mechanisms and how the initial functional characterizations of specific light regulators provide the basis to investigate the conservation or diversification of light-mediated processes in diatoms.

TL;DR: By linking diversity, structure and function in the plankton food-web, the role of internal mechanisms, relying on species-specific functionalities, in driving the ‘adaptive’ responses of plankton communities to perturbations is discussed.