Phytoplankton can actively diversify their migration strategy in response to turbulent cues

Anupam Sengupta, Francesco Carrara and Roman Stocker ()
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Anupam Sengupta: Institute for Environmental Engineering, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Francesco Carrara: Institute for Environmental Engineering, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Roman Stocker: Institute for Environmental Engineering, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering

Nature, 2017, vol. 543, issue 7646, 555-558

Abstract: Here, marine phytoplankton are shown to diversify their migratory strategy in response to turbulent cues through a rapid change in shape, thus challenging a fundamental paradigm in oceanography that phytoplankton are passively at the mercy of ocean turbulence.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nature21415

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