Unicellular cyanobacteria fix N2 in the subtropical North Pacific Ocean

739 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Autotrophic picoplankton in mesozooplankton guts: evidence of aggregate feeding in the mesopelagic zone and export of small phytoplankton (2010, background): “The 1 to 5 µm cells likely include Synechococcus spp. at both sites, and Richelia spp. and small unicellular diazotrophs at ALOHA (M. W. Silver pers. comm., Zehr et al. 2001, 2007, Montoya et al. 2004).”
Recent changes (2008) in cyanobacteria taxonomy based on a combination of molecular background with phenotype and ecological consequences (genus and species concept) (2010, neutral): “Examples of such insufficiently described taxa are Anacystis nidulans, Thermosynechococcus, Prochlorococcum, Crocosphaera, etc.”
Elevated CO2 enhances nitrogen fixation and growth in the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium (2007, background): “The recently described unicellular diazotrophs boost current estimates of global N fixation (Zehr et al., 2000, 2001; Falcon et al., 2004; Montoya et al., 2004) and may also respond positively to elevated CO2.”
Evidence of active dinitrogen fixation in surface waters of the eastern tropical South Pacific during El Niño and La Niña events and evaluation of its potential nutrient controls (2013, background): “0886-6236/13/10.1002/gbc.20063 GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES, VOL. 27, 768–779, doi:10.1002/gbc.20063, 2013 2007], partly because most in situ studies on N2 fixation are performed on cyanobacterial diazotrophs in N-depleted warm areas [Capone et al., 1997; Zehr et al., 2001].”