The role of functional traits and trade-offs in structuring phytoplankton communities: scaling from cellular to ecosystem level.

By Elena Litchman, C. Klausmeier, Oscar Schofield, Paul G. Falkowski. Ecology Letters, 2007

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ERSEM 15.06: a generic model for marine biogeochemistry and the ecosystem dynamics of the lower trophic levels (2015, background): “The choice to characterise groups according to their size reflects the importance of size as a physiological trait (Litchman et al., 2007, 2010), which influences an organism’s competitive ability through its effect on nutrient acquisition, carbon and nutrient storage, the intracellular trans-2485…”
A trait-based approach for downscaling complexity in plankton ecosystem models (2009, background): “Re-47 cently, there has been a renewed interest in trait-based approaches in ecology48 both in land (Lavorel and Garnier, 2002; McGill et al., 2006; Westoby and49 Wright, 2006; Ackerly and Cornwell, 2007) and marine (Litchman et al., 2007;50 Litchman and Klausmeier, 2008) ecology.”
Photosynthesis and respiration in marine phytoplankton: Relationship with cell size, taxonomic affiliation, and growth phase (2014, positive): “, the ellipsoidal shape in pennate diatoms), enhanced nutrient storage capacity (Litchman et al., 2007), and a reduction in volume-specific nutrient requirements (Thingstad et al.”
A hierarchy of conceptual models of red-tide generation: Nutrition, behavior, and biological interactions (2015, background): “Such inhibition is often included implicitly in models of red tides that include multiple species competing for the same nutrients (Irwin et al., 2006; Litchman et al., 2007; Litchman and Klausmeier, 2008; Fiksen et al., 2013).”
Warming alters the size spectrum and shifts the distribution of biomass in freshwater ecosystems (2011, background): “Litchman et al. (2007) found that the minimum cellular nitrogen quota required to support growth, Qmin, across a wide range of phytoplankton taxa increases allometrically, resulting in a disproportionate increase in cellular nitrogen quota with size.”
Invited Review - Fight on Plankton! or, Phytoplankton Shape and Size as Adaptive Tools to Get Ahead in the Struggle for Life (2011, background): “…being increasingly used in phytoplankton ecology to explain and predict species distributions along environmental gradients (e.g. Reynolds et al., 2002; Weithoff, 2003; Litchman et al., 2007, 2010; Naselli-Flores et al., 2007a; Litchman & Klausmeier, 2008; Padisák et al., 2009; Kruk et al., 2010).”
On the roles of cell size and trophic strategy in North Atlantic diatom and dinoflagellate communities (2013, background): “…is a ‘‘master trait’’ that places important constraints on many key organismal characteristics and biotic interactions, including nutrient affinity (Litchman et al. 2007), light absorption efficiency (Finkel et al. 2010), predation (Hansen et al. 1997), and growth and metabolic rates (Litchman…”
Functional groups in marine phytoplankton assemblages dominated by diatoms in fjords of southern Chile (2008, background): “coccolithophorids (Iglesias-Rodríguez, et al. 2002; Smayda, 2002; de Vargas et al., 2007, Kooistra et al. 2007; Litchman et al., 2007).”
Combined constraints on global ocean primary production using observations and models (2013, background): “Combining these high growth rates with observed resource efficiencies would create a model organism that could not exist in nature [cf. Litchman et al., 2007].”
A size‐structured food‐web model for the global ocean (2012, background): “These features of marine communities, together with the strong empirical relationships that are found between physiological traits and organism size (Litchman et al. 2007), have motivated the development of marine ecosystem and biogeochemistry models towards the explicit representation of…”
Temperature‐ and size‐scaling of phytoplankton population growth rates: Reconciling the Eppley curve and the metabolic theory of ecology (2017, background): “Many recent studies have found that the relatedness and functional group identity of species is an important predictor of their physiology, ranging from light and nutrient uptake traits (Litchman et al. 2007; Edwards et al. 2012, 2015), to thermal tolerance traits (Thomas et al. 2016).”