T. Alwyn V. Rees

TL;DR: It is suggested that cell size and elemental stoichiometry are promising ecophysiological traits for modelling and tracking changes in phytoplankton community structure in response to climate change.

TL;DR: The loss of the algal symbiont and its metabolic contribution to the host has the potential to result in the transition from a coral-dominated to an algal-dominated ecosystem.

TL;DR: Analyses of physical and biotic factors indicate potential ecological constraints and opportunities that differ among the life forms, and variations among life forms in elemental stoichiometry and in allometric relations between biovolume and specific growth.

TL;DR: The growth rate hypothesis (GRH) cannot be assumed to apply to phytoplankton taxa without first performing experimental tests under transient conditions and the value of the GRH for any sort of predictive role in nature appears to be severely limited.

TL;DR: A comparison of rates at which the plants took up ammonium with turnover rates of water in the bed indicated that the plants could derive, on average, up to 79% of the nitrogen they required for growth from ammonium excreted by epifauna.