Trevor Platt

TL;DR: A metagenomic study of the marine planktonic microbiota in which surface (mostly marine) water samples were analyzed as part of the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition, which yielded an extensive dataset consisting of 7.7 million sequencing reads.

TL;DR: Eight different mathematical formulations of the photosynthesis—light curve for phytoplankton were recast in terms of the same two parameters: the initial slope α, and the assimilation number PmB.

TL;DR: In this article, a new empirical equation is introduced that describes the photosynthesi s by phytoplankton as a single, continuous function of available light from the initi al linear response through the photoinhibited range at the highest light levels.

TL;DR: In this paper, an estimate of global net primary production in the ocean has been computed from the monthly mean near-surface chlorophyll fields for 1979-1986 obtained by the Nimbus 7 CZCS radiometer.

TL;DR: The Dynamic Green Ocean Model (DGOM) as mentioned in this paper is based on the identification of key plankton functional types that need to be simulated explicitly to capture important biogeochemical processes in the ocean, and sources of information necessary to parameterize each of these processes within a modeling framework.