William K. W. Li

TL;DR: The global niche models suggest that oceanic microbial communities will experience complex changes as a result of projected future climate conditions, and these changes may have large impacts on ocean ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles.

TL;DR: In the Arctic Ocean, phytoplankton cell sizes have decreased with warming temperatures and fresher surface waters, and since 2004, there has been an increase in the smallest algae and bacteria along with a concomitant decrease in somewhat larger algae.

TL;DR: A partitioning of ultraphytoplankton primary production among prochlorophytes, cyanobacteria, and eucaryotic algae was made by shipboard flow cytometric sorting of 14C-labeled cells indicated that the dominant primary producer was not necessarily the numerical dominant nor necessarily the group with the highest cell-specific rate of 14 C uptake.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that these are indeed autotrophic cells and not cell fragments and that they are attributable to particles that could pass a screen with a 1-micrometer pore diameter.

TL;DR: Two ecological rules are combined, the temperature-size relationship with the allometric size-scaling of population abundance to explain a remarkably consistent pattern of increasing picophytoplankton biomass with temperature over the ―0.6 to 22 °C range in a merged dataset obtained in the eastern and western temperate North Atlantic Ocean.