@article {letscher_biodiversity_2023,
	title = {Biodiversity and stoichiometric plasticity increase pico-phytoplankton contributions to marine net primary productivity and the biological pump},
	journal = {Global Biogeochemical Cycles},
	volume = {n/a},
	number = {n/a},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2023GB007756},
	pages = {e2023GB007756},
	abstract = {Earth System Models generally predict increasing upper ocean stratification from 21st century warming, which will cause a decrease in the vertical nutrient flux forcing declines in marine net primary productivity (NPP) and carbon export. Recent advances in quantifying marine ecosystem carbon to nutrient stoichiometry have identified large latitudinal and biome variability, with low-latitude oligotrophic systems harboring pico-sized phytoplankton exhibiting large phosphorus to carbon cellular plasticity. Climate forced changes in nutrient flux stoichiometry and phytoplankton community composition is thus likely to alter the ocean{\textquoteright}s biogeochemical response and feedback with the carbon-climate system. We have added three pico-phytoplankton functional types within the Biogeochemical Elemental Cycling component of the Community Earth System Model while incorporating variable cellular phosphorus to carbon stoichiometry for all represented phytoplankton types. The model simulates Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus populations that dominate the productivity and sinking carbon export of the tropical and subtropical ocean, and pico-eukaryote populations that contribute significantly to productivity and export within the subtropical to mid-latitude transition zone, with the western subtropical regions of each basin supporting the most P-poor stoichiometries. Subtropical gyre recirculation regions along the poleward flanks of surface western boundary currents are identified as regional hotspots of enhanced carbon export exhibiting C-rich/P-poor stoichiometry, preferentially inhabited by pico-eukaryotes and diatoms. Collectively, pico-phytoplankton contribute \~{}58\% of global NPP and \~{}46\% of global particulate organic carbon export below 100 meters through direct and ecosystem processing pathways. Biodiversity and cellular nutrient plasticity in marine pico-phytoplankton combine to increase their contributions to ocean productivity and the biological carbon pump. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.},
	keywords = {carbon export, net primary productivity, pico-phytoplankton, rcc162, rcc1677, rcc212, rcc289, rcc296, rcc30, rcc438, variable C:P},
	issn = {1944-9224},
	doi = {10.1029/2023GB007756},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2023GB007756},
	author = {Letscher, Robert T. and Moore, J. Keith and Martiny, Adam C. and Lomas, Michael W.}
}
@article {Garcia2018,
	title = {High variability in cellular stoichiometry of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus within classes of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton under sufficient nutrient conditions},
	journal = {Frontiers in Microbiology},
	volume = {9},
	number = {March},
	year = {2018},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC103,RCC1242,RCC1562,RCC4023,RCC449,RCC931},
	pages = {1{\textendash}10},
	abstract = {Current hypotheses suggest that cellular elemental stoichiometry of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton such as the ratios of cellular carbon:nitrogen:phosphorus (C:N:P) vary between phylogenetic groups based traits like evolutionary history and cell size. To investigate how phylogenetic structure, cell volume, growth rate and temperature interact to affect the cellular elemental stoichiometry of marine eukaryotic phytoplankton, we examined the C:N:P composition in 30 isolates across 7 classes of marine phytoplankton that were grown with a sufficient supply of nutrients with nitrate as the nitrogen source. The isolates covered a wide range in cell volume (5 orders of magnitude), growth rate ({\textexclamdown}0.01-0.9 d-1), and habitat temperature (2-24{\textdegree}C). Our analysis indicates that C:N:P is highly variable, with statistical model residuals accounting for over half of the total variance with no relationship between phylogeny and elemental stoichiometry. Furthermore, our data indicated that variability in C:P, N:P and C:N within Bacillariophyceae (diatoms) was as high as that among all of the isolates that we examined. In addition, a linear statistical model identified a positive relationship between diatom cell volume and C:P and N:P. Among all of the isolates that we examined, the statistical model identified temperature as a significant factor, consistent with the temperature-dependent translation efficiency model, but temperature only explained 5\% of the total statistical model variance. While some of our results support data from previous field studies, the high variability of elemental ratios within Bacillariophyceae contradicts previous work that suggests that this cosmopolitan group of microalgae has consistently low C:P and N:P ratios in comparison with other groups.},
	keywords = {cell size, Diatom, Dinoflagellate, eukaryote, frontiers in microbiology, frontiersin, Growth, org, protist, prymnesiophyte, RCC103, RCC1242, RCC1562, RCC4023, RCC449, RCC931, temperature, www},
	issn = {1664-302X},
	doi = {10.3389/fmicb.2018.00543},
	url = {http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00543/full},
	author = {Garcia, Nathan S. and Sexton, Julie and Riggins, Tracey and Brown, Jeff and Lomas, Michael W. and Martiny, Adam C.}
}
