| Range |
64% of biomass: ≤44% of gross primary production %
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| Organism |
Biosphere |
| Reference |
Liu, H.B. Nolla, H.A. Campbell, L. Prochlorococcus growth rate and contribution to primary production in the equatorial and subtropical North Pacific Ocean. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 1997, 12, 39–47. DOI 10.3354/ame012039 p.39 right column |
| Primary Source |
Campbell L, Nolla HA, Vaulot D (1994) The Importance of Prochlorococcus to community structure in the central North Pacific Ocean. Limnol Oceanogr 39. 954-961 DOI: 10.4319/lo.1994.39.4.0954 & Vaulot D (1995) The cell cycle of phytoplankton: coupling cell growth to population growth. In: Joint IR (ed) Molecular ecology of aquatic microbes. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p 303-322 |
| Comments |
P.39 left column:"Recent studies indicate that picoeucaryotes [<2µm] dominate the biomass and productivity of picophytoplankton in most regions of the world ocean (see Li 1995), except the central North Pacific where Prochlorococcus accounted for 64 % of biomass (primary source Campbell et al. 1994) and up to 44 % of gross primary production (primary source Vaulot 1995). The grazing of heterotrophic flagellates and ciliates on Prochlorococcus and other picoplankters is substantial." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
112063 |