Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.
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SUBMITTER: Ibarbalz FM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6912166 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life.
Ibarbalz Federico M FM Henry Nicolas N Brandão Manoela C MC Martini Séverine S Busseni Greta G Byrne Hannah H Coelho Luis Pedro LP Endo Hisashi H Gasol Josep M JM Gregory Ann C AC Mahé Frédéric F Rigonato Janaina J Royo-Llonch Marta M Salazar Guillem G Sanz-Sáez Isabel I Scalco Eleonora E Soviadan Dodji D Zayed Ahmed A AA Zingone Adriana A Labadie Karine K Ferland Joannie J Marec Claudie C Kandels Stefanie S Picheral Marc M Dimier Céline C Poulain Julie J Pisarev Sergey S Carmichael Margaux M Pesant Stéphane S Babin Marcel M Boss Emmanuel E Iudicone Daniele D Jaillon Olivier O Acinas Silvia G SG Ogata Hiroyuki H Pelletier Eric E Stemmann Lars L Sullivan Matthew B MB Sunagawa Shinichi S Bopp Laurent L de Vargas Colomban C Karp-Boss Lee L Wincker Patrick P Lombard Fabien F Bowler Chris C Zinger Lucie L
Cell 20191101 5
The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers remain poorly known, precluding projections of their responses to global changes. Here we investigate the latitudinal gradients and global predictors of plankton diversity across archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, and major virus clades using both molecular and imaging data from Tara Oceans. We show a decline of diversity f ...[more]
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