Phytoplankton death in the sea

David L. Kirchman ()
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David L. Kirchman: the College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware

Nature, 1999, vol. 398, issue 6725, 293-294

Abstract: Marine phytoplankton provide a good dinner for grazing zooplankton, and this was always thought to be how the phytoplankton die. But they may, in fact, simply die and lyse without even being touched by a grazer. A new study documents huge levels of phytoplankton lysis in surface waters of the northwestern Mediterranean Sea — equivalent to up to 50% of phytoplankton growth.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/18570

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