Latitudinal phytoplankton distribution and the neutral theory of biodiversity

By G. Chust, Xabier Irigoien, Jérôme Chave, R. Harris. 2013

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We thank all who contributed to collecting the samples on the different cruises. This study was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council through the Atlantic Meridional Transect consortium (this is contribution number 215 of the AMT programme). Special thanks go to D. Harbour, who counted most of the samples to the species level. We acknowledge the contribution of S. Hubbell (Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California) for reviewing carefully this paper and providing useful comments. This research was funded by the project Malaspina (Consolider-Ingenio 2010, CSD2008-00077) and from the European Commission (contract no. 264933, EURO-BASIN: European Union Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration). This is contribution 590 from AZTI-Tecnalia Marine Research Division.

Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography

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• Metagenetic analysis of patterns of distribution and diversity of marine meiobenthic eukaryotes (2014, background): “Chust et al. (2013) observed similar patterns in phytoplankton communities and thus, clearly, the ‘environment selects’ meiofaunal communities (Baas Becking, 1934).”