ME53B:
Plankton Diversity: Patterns, Processes, and Methods III


Session ID#: 11330

Session Description:
Recent field, laboratory, modeling, and theoretical efforts have improved understanding of the patterns of plankton diversity and the mechanisms that maintain them, as well as the broader importance of diversity in setting ecosystem properties and functions. Despite significant progress, considerable research challenges and uncertainties remain. For this session, we invite contributions addressing these and related fundamental questions: How is plankton diversity measured, manipulated, and modeled?; What are the observed and simulated patterns of plankton diversity?; What controls the diversity of plankton?; and, How does diversity affect broader ecosystem properties and functions? We welcome contributions from any methodological approach focusing on any aquatic system or taxonomic groups. We particularly encourage studies that diagnose and interpret spatial and temporal diversity gradients across a range of scales and organisms, and examine the dynamic interplay between physical and biological processes. The goals of the session are to: a) build understanding of the patterns, regulation, and importance of plankton diversity, b) highlight areas of persistent uncertainty as focal areas for future research, and c) provide an interdisciplinary forum for communicating novel methodological and conceptual developments in the study of plankton diversity.
Primary Chair:  Andrew Barton, Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Sergio M Vallina, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain and Pedro Cermeno, Marine Sciences Institute (ICM - CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Moderators:  Sergio M Vallina, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain and Pedro Cermeno, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Andrew Barton, Princeton University Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States
Index Terms:

4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4817 Food webs, structure, and dynamics [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4855 Phytoplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
4890 Zooplankton [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
  • MM - Microbiology and Molecular Biology
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation
  • PP - Phytoplankton and Primary Production

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

ME53B-01
Declines in Both Redundant and Trace Species Characterize the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient in Tintinnid Ciliates of the Microzooplankton (89597)
John R Dolan, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanography de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France and Eun Jin Yang, KOPRI Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, Korea, Republic of (South)
ME53B-02
Ecological equivalence of species within phytoplankton functional types (91265)
Andrew J Irwin1, Crispin Mutshinda1, Zoe Finkel2 and Claire E Widdicombe3, (1)Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, Canada, (2)Environmental Science Program, NB, Canada, (3)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom
ME53B-04
Minimal Similarity between Biogeographic Patterns of Morphological Disparity and Taxonomic Richness in Extant Coccolithophores (92558)
Marites Villarosa Garcia, University of Chicago, Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
ME53B-05
Resolving Microzooplankton Functional Groups In A Size-Structured Planktonic Model (92531)
Darcy Taniguchi1, Stephanie Dutkiewicz2, Michael J Follows2, Oliver Jahn3 and Susanne Menden-Deuer4, (1)MIT, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, RI, United States
ME53B-06
Modeling the Effects of Trait Diversity on Short-term Adaptive Capacity and Long-term Productivity of Phytoplankton Communities (88360)
Sherwood Lan Smith, Crest JST, Tokyo, Japan; JAMSTEC, Research and Development Center for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan, Sergio M Vallina, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain and Agostino Merico, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany; Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany
ME53B-07
Phytoplankton functional diversity increases ecosystem productivity and stability. (92362)
Sergio M Vallina1, Pedro Cermeno2, Stephanie Dutkiewicz3, Michel Loreau4 and Jose Montoya4, (1)Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Marine Sciences Institute (ICM - CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Station d'Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS, Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, Moulis, France
ME53B-08
Phytoplankton Species Richness Increases Marine Primary Productivity through Selection Effect (91144)
Pedro Cermeno, Marine Sciences Institute (ICM - CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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