ReviewCurrent opinion in systems biology2019
Trophic switches in pelagic systems.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Protistan Plankton Responses to Variable Light and Upwelling in the Peruvian Humboldt Current System: Insights Into Community Dynamics Under Environmental Change.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Eutrophication triggered changes in network structure and fluxes of the Comacchio Lagoon (Italy).PloS one · 2025Article
- Top-down structuring of freshwater bacterial communities by mixotrophic flagellates.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Smaller species but larger stages: Warming effects on inter- and intraspecific community size structure.Ecology · 2022Review
- Uncoupled phytoplankton-bacterioplankton relationship by multiple drivers interacting at different temporal scales in a high-mountain Mediterranean lake.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Phytoplankton and particle size spectra indicate intense mixotrophic dinoflagellates grazing from summer to winter.Journal of plankton researchArticle
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Abstract
Ecological studies need experimentation to test concepts and to disentangle causality in community dynamics. While simple models have given substantial insights into population and community dynamics, recent ecological concepts become increasingly complex. The globally important pelagic food web dynamics are well suited to test complex ecological concepts. For instance, trophic switches of individual organisms within pelagic food webs can elongate food webs or shift the balance between autotroph and heterotroph carbon fluxes. Here, we summarize results from mesocosm experiments demonstrating how environmental drivers result in trophic switches of marine phytoplankton and zooplankton communities. Such mesocosm experiments are useful to develop and test complex ecological concepts going beyond trophic level-based analyses, including diversity, individual behavior, and environmental stochasticity.
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