Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Nanoplanktonic diatoms are globally overlooked but play a role in spring blooms and carbon export

  • Karine Leblanc,
  • Bernard Quéguiner,
  • Frédéric Diaz,
  • Véronique Cornet,
  • Mónica Michel-Rodriguez,
  • Xavier Durrieu de Madron,
  • Chris Bowler,
  • Shruti Malviya,
  • Melilotus Thyssen,
  • Gérald Grégori,
  • Mathieu Rembauville,
  • Olivier Grosso,
  • Julie Poulain,
  • Colomban de Vargas,
  • Mireille Pujo-Pay,
  • Pascal Conan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03376-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Diatoms are major oceanic primary producers, but some species belonging to the nano- and even picoplankton size are poorly characterized. Here the authors describe a massive spring bloom of the smallest known diatom in the Mediterranean Sea and reveal their general oversight at the global scale.