Scaling-up from nutrient physiology to the size-structure of phytoplankton communities

By A. Irwin, Z. Finkel, Oscar Schofield, Paul G. Falkowski. 2006

368 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fc2dfe27d0f24e3806572fd91c0b35abb7a383ca

How researchers see this paper

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

In Ecology

In Oceanography

Citations in the corpus

A size‐structured food‐web model for the global ocean (2012, background): “The modeled analogs of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are also widely distributed across the global ocean.”
Is there a difference of temperature sensitivity between marine phytoplankton and heterotrophs? (2017, background): “Given the large impact of PFTs on l0 values, inclusion of PFTs in phytoplankton models seems necessary (Irwin et al. 2006; Ward et al. 2012).”
Phytoplankton in a changing world: cell size and elemental stoichiometry (2010, background): “…a, reflect large (over an order of magnitude), well-known size-independent taxonomic differences in metabolic rate (Moloney and Field, 1989; Irwin et al., 2006; Raven et al., 2006); for example, dinoflagellates generally have lower growth rates than diatoms of comparable size (Tang, 1996).”
Modeling the coupling of ocean ecology and biogeochemistry (2009, background): “Recent empirical and theoretical studies [Falkowski and Oliver, 2007; Litchman et al., 2007; Irwin et al., 2006; Wilson et al., 2007, and references therein; Tozzi et al., 2004] emphasize the application of resource competition theory as a framework for interpreting the regulation of phytoplankton…”
Photosynthesis and respiration in marine phytoplankton: Relationship with cell size, taxonomic affiliation, and growth phase (2014, positive): “…relevant, since ocean ecologicalmodels often require the representation of size-dependent physiological traits of phytoplankton (Armstrong, 1994; Irwin et al., 2006; Ward et al., 2012) but rely on the use of sizescaling parameters obtained from literature reviews (Litchman et al., 2007;…”
From Elements to Function: Toward Unifying Ecological Stoichiometry and Trait-Based Ecology (2017, background): “…faster growth rates Hillebrand et al., 2013 Nutrient uptake Cell size Phytoplankton nutrient uptake affinities decline with increased cell size Irwin et al., 2006; Edwards et al., 2012 Growth rate Higher phytoplankton maximum growth rates with greater nutrient uptake affinity Edwards et al.,…”
On the roles of cell size and trophic strategy in North Atlantic diatom and dinoflagellate communities (2013, background): “The extra nutrient allows successively larger size classes of phytoplankton and their predators to persist (Armstrong 1994; Irwin et al. 2006), and this process is thought to explain the positive correlation between inorganic nutrients and cell size (Schartau et al.”
Microbial control of diatom bloom dynamics in the open ocean (2012, background): “…to rapidly acquire Fe due to physico-chemical advantages – e.g., higher surface-area: volume ratio, faster diffusion rates [Beardall et al., 2009; Irwin et al., 2006] and active transport systems [Butler, 1998] - and/or the limited bioavailability of forms of Fe released during recycling…”
The role of nutrients in regulation and promotion of harmful algal blooms in upwelling systems (2010, background): “Although allometric scaling laws are well founded on physics and physiology (Aksnes and Egge, 1991; Chisholm, 1991; Irwin et al., 2006; Litchman et al., 2007), the direct application to upwelling HAB organisms is subject to substantial variability.”
Optimal phytoplankton cell size in an allometric model (2009, background): “Several published studies do assume size-dependent storage capacity (e.g. Grover 1989, Irwin et al. 2006), but more laboratory studies are needed in order to obtain a statistically significant relationship between storage capacity and cell size in phytoplankton.”
Modelling spatial and temporal patterns in size-structured marine plankton communities: top -down and bottom -up controls (2014, background): “Within each taxonomic group the maximum photosynthetic rate decreases with increasing cell size, but for any given size diatoms are able to achieve the highest rates while Prochlorococcus are the slowest (Tang, 1995; Irwin et al ., 2006; Ward et al ., 2012).”
A nonparametric method for the measurement of size diversity with emphasis on data standardization (2008, background): “This is the case of many phytoplankton communities, where competition for nutrient uptake is strongly related to size (Malone 1980; Harrison and Wood 1988; Armstrong 2003; Irwin et al. 2006), and 2) when one species undergo ontogenetic shifts in food or habitat use (Werner and Gilliam 1984; Armsby a”
Warming alters the size spectrum and shifts the distribution of biomass in freshwater ecosystems (2011, background): “In this case, changes in community size structure occur as an indirect effect of warming, mediated for example, by concomitant nutrient limitation, resulting in the competitive exclusion of larger species (Finkel et al., 2005, 2010; Irwin et al., 2006; Falkowski & Oliver, 2007; Winder et al., 2009).”
Interpretation of fast repetition rate (FRR) fluorescence: signatures of phytoplankton community structure versus physiological state (2009, background): “It is well established that well-stratified, low-nutrient oceanic waters become dominated by small-celled communities composed of Prochlorococcus sp., Synechococcus sp. and picoeukaryotes (e.g. Irwin et al. 2006).”
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).”