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Beyond the bottle: exposing the identity-rate gap in microzooplankton ecology. 瓶子之外：揭露微型浮游动物生态学中的识别率差距。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-09-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag070

Albert Calbet

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Combining pigment analysis and imaging microscopy to identify seasonal patterns in biomass and diversity of plankton. 结合色素分析和成像显微镜识别生物量和浮游生物多样性的季节模式。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-07-16 eCollection Date: 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag056

Nicole Corbett, Alice C Ortmann, Emmanuel Devred

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Warming and acidification alter essential fatty acid profiles in marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi. 升温和酸化改变海洋硅藻马里诺骨骼肌必需脂肪酸谱。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-07-03 eCollection Date: 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag057

Maria Nicoară, Charlotte L Briddon, Alexandra Mortu, Adriana Hegedűs, Emese Gal, Horia Leonard Banciu, Bogdan Drugă

{"title":"Warming and acidification alter essential fatty acid profiles in marine diatom Skeletonema marinoi.","authors":"Maria Nicoară, Charlotte L Briddon, Alexandra Mortu, Adriana Hegedűs, Emese Gal, Horia Leonard Banciu, Bogdan Drugă","doi":"10.1093/plankt/fbag057","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plankt/fbag057","url":null,"abstract":"Marine diatoms are key components of the planetary ocean, playing crucial roles in trophic networks: fixing carbon, producing fatty acids (FA) that cannot be synthesized de novo by higher trophic organisms. To better comprehend how the combined action of climatic change influences the dietary value and the impacts on the upper trophic levels, we used a 2 × 2 factorial experiment to investigate how the FA profiles of Skeletonema marinoi changed in response to the individual and combined effects of warming (7, 19°C) and acidification (400, 1 000 ppm CO2). Three S. marinoi strains were exposed for ~ 40 weeks to ambient conditions, warming, acidification and their combination and analyzed for FA profiles, focusing on polyunsaturated (PUFA), omega-3 and omega-6 FA. We found that omega-3 FA increased under warming exposure, while acidification alone led to lower omega-3/omega-6 ratios. In contrast, the ratios increased under warming, alone or coupled with acidification, in all three strains, indicating better food quality for higher trophic levels. Our results suggest the long-term exposure to both drivers will help the marine diatoms to acclimatize to their combined effects, allowing them to buffer the changes brought by warming and ocean acidification.","PeriodicalId":16800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plankton Research","volume":"48 4","pages":"fbag057"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13330538/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148391212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mesozooplankton distribution in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) during the west African monsoon: a comparison across subsystems. 西非季风期间几内亚海流大海洋生态系统（GCLME）中浮游动物分布：各子系统的比较。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-07-02 eCollection Date: 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag050

Olga Anadoli, Hawa Bint Yaqub, Maryse Aka, Estelle S Konan, Emmanuel Acheampong, Jerome Adonis Zuweh, Lynette John, Stamatina Isari

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Metabolic and life-history effects of heat stress in early life stages of a marine copepod, Calanus finmarchicus. 热应激对海洋桡足动物Calanus finmarchicus生命早期代谢和生活史的影响。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-06-30 eCollection Date: 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag048

Sidonie E J Rousseau, Justine Hienne, Dag Altin, Kang Nian Yap

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If AI writes the paper, who validates the plankton?: a call to reinvest in empirical expertise before the validation gap becomes irreversible. 如果论文是人工智能写的，谁来验证浮游生物？在验证差距变得不可逆转之前，呼吁重新投资经验专业知识。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-06-30 eCollection Date: 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag045

Albert Calbet

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Comparison of FlowCam Macro and traditional microscopy for studying mesopelagic copepod community composition. FlowCam宏观与传统显微研究中远洋桡足动物群落组成的比较。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-06-26 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag037

Eloïse L-R Savineau, Kathryn B Cook, Anna Belcher, Sophie Fielding, Gabriele Stowasser, Geraint A Tarling, Daniel J Mayor

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Diverse sampling programs highlight pulses of Velella velella along the US West Coast. 不同的采样程序突出了沿美国西海岸的Velella Velella的脉冲。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-06-13 eCollection Date: 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag044

Megan A Cimino, John A Conroy, Ryan Gasbarro, Michael G Jacox, Brian Hoover, Jarrod A Santora, Danial G Palance, Emily C Nazario, Isaac Schroeder, Adena Schonfeld, Allison Cluett, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Elliott L Hazen, Eric Bjorkstedt, Jaime Jahncke, Timothy Jones, Mark D Ohman, Julia Parrish

{"title":"Diverse sampling programs highlight pulses of Velella velella along the US West Coast.","authors":"Megan A Cimino, John A Conroy, Ryan Gasbarro, Michael G Jacox, Brian Hoover, Jarrod A Santora, Danial G Palance, Emily C Nazario, Isaac Schroeder, Adena Schonfeld, Allison Cluett, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Elliott L Hazen, Eric Bjorkstedt, Jaime Jahncke, Timothy Jones, Mark D Ohman, Julia Parrish","doi":"10.1093/plankt/fbag044","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plankt/fbag044","url":null,"abstract":"Sporadic mass strandings of the hydrozoan, Velella velella, along the US West Coast fascinate beachcombers and perplex oceanographers. Velella often arrive to the coast in the spring concurrent with a shift in onshore winds and after winters with warmer water temperatures. Understanding the factors that bring Velella to coastal waters provides new information about the ecological impacts of local and basin-scale environmental variability in the northeast Pacific. We summarize several compelling, non-exclusive hypotheses that could explain the recent increase in Velella, including increased population size, larger surface patches and enhanced coastward transport. We compiled a comprehensive dataset spanning planktonic larval to colonial adult life stages from 10 sources covering ~1900-2025. We highlight pulses of Velella and an unprecedented number of strandings and at-sea observations since 2014. We found that wind patterns in the central-east Pacific favor transport toward the coast during years of Velella presence. However, we found no clear relationship between surface frontal features and Velella abundance, nor a consistent association with El Niño. We also identified phalarope abundance as a potential seabird proxy for increased Velella abundance at-sea. Finally, we provide recommendations for future monitoring efforts to improve long-term assessments, given the current inability to clearly distinguish among hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":16800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plankton Research","volume":"48 4","pages":"fbag044"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13264391/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148252304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Preservation-induced distortions in aquatic protists: mechanistic biases, quantitative uncertainties and ecological consequences. 水生原生生物保存引起的扭曲：机械偏差、数量不确定性和生态后果。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-05-29 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag038

Albert Calbet

{"title":"Preservation-induced distortions in aquatic protists: mechanistic biases, quantitative uncertainties and ecological consequences.","authors":"Albert Calbet","doi":"10.1093/plankt/fbag038","DOIUrl":"10.1093/plankt/fbag038","url":null,"abstract":"Aquatic protist quantification underpins our understanding of microbial food webs, biogeochemical cycling and ecosystem functioning. Yet, most estimates of abundance, biomass, size structure and community composition still rely on preserved samples, even though fixation alters the organisms it is meant to preserve. Here, I synthesize experimental, methodological and comparative studies spanning several decades to show that fixation is not neutral, but a systematic, taxon-dependent source of distortion. Across common fixatives, including Lugol's iodine, formaldehyde, protargol and glutaraldehyde, cell volume may shrink by >80% or swell by 30-55%, depending on taxon and protocol. Abundance estimates are likewise biased: aldehyde-preserved samples often yield ciliate counts 10-50% lower than Lugol-preserved samples, with even greater losses in fragile naked taxa, while some flagellate staining workflows recover only 20-30% of live abundance. These effects are further modified by storage time, handling and analytical method, generating error cascades that affect biomass estimates, trophic interpretation and carbon flux calculations. Because these artifacts vary across taxa and workflows, universal correction factors are not appropriate. Instead, fixation acts as a selective ecological filter, reshaping plankton communities before observation.","PeriodicalId":16800,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Plankton Research","volume":"48 3","pages":"fbag038"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2026-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13220805/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148138224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A new visual index for assessing zooplankton biomass and its utility in assessing prey availability for megaplanktivores. 一种新的评估浮游动物生物量的视觉指数及其在评估大型浮游动物猎物可得性中的应用。

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Journal of Plankton Research Pub Date : 2026-05-27 eCollection Date: 2026-05-01 DOI: 10.1093/plankt/fbag027

Hannah M Moloney, Asia O Armstrong, Guy M W Stevens, Christine L Dudgeon, Joanna L Harris, Kathy A Townsend, Anthony J Richardson

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