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Understanding Phytoplankton Bloom Development--Bess Ward and Mary Jane Perry
Understanding Phytoplankton Bloom Development--Bess Ward and Mary Jane Perry
Pages 115-117
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Although size sounds like an objective variable, it's not obvious that actual phytoplankton fall into ecologically meaningful size categories. Thus we need to link observations of phytoplankton species to measured and model outcomes to determine what factors matter to phytoplankton, and thence to predictive power in response to anthropogenic changes such as nutrient enrichment and global warming.
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In order to determine the appropriate time scales for investigation of phytoplankton responses, some additional work with pure cultures is probably warranted. Then both experimental and in situ sampling can be scaled to catch, e.g., changes in gene expression that can occur on the order of minutes to hours.
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Functional gene microarrays offer a way to analyze the relative abundance and level of gene expression of many different kinds of genes from a multitude of different organisms simultaneously. At the very least, frequent sample collection and preservation can be done so that laboratory based analyses can be linked to remotely measured chemical and physical variables.
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