@article {yu_does_2023,
	title = {Does the life cycle stage matter for distinguishing phytoplankton via fluoro-electrochemical microscopy?},
	journal = {Cell Reports Physical Science},
	year = {2023},
	pages = {101223},
	abstract = {Phytoplankton have species-specific responses toward electrogenerated oxidants, allowing high-throughput species analysis. Herein, a fluoro-electrochemical method is used to expose single Chlamydomonas concordia vegetative cells at different points within their life cycle to electro-generated oxidants from seawater. The resulting decay in fluorescence from chlorophyll-a is measured as a function of time and drops to zero for phytoplankton adjacent to the electrode over a period of a few seconds. The chlorophyll-a transient timescale allows mother cells, which are distinctively larger and require a larger quantity of oxidants, to be distinguished from either zoospores or {\textquotedblleft}growing{\textquotedblright} cells, while all the cells show the same intrinsic susceptibility modulated only by the size of the phytoplankton. These observations are essential for the future automated characterization of the speciation of phytoplankton populations as they show that there is no need to manually identify the life cycle stage.},
	keywords = {electrogenerated radicals, fluoro-electrochemistry, Green algae, life cycle, marine phytoplankton, oxidative damage, RCC1, remote sensing, susceptibility library},
	issn = {2666-3864},
	doi = {10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101223},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666386422005410},
	author = {Yu, Jiahao and Yang, Minjun and Batchelor-McAuley, Christopher and Barton, Samuel and Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. and Bouman, Heather A. and Compton, Richard G.}
}
@booklet {barton_novel_2023,
	title = {A novel fluoro-electrochemical technique for classifying diverse marine nanophytoplankton},
	year = {2023},
	month = {apr},
	publisher = {Life Sciences},
	type = {preprint},
	abstract = {<p>To broaden our understanding of pelagic ecosystem responses to environmental change, it is essential that we improve the spatio-temporal resolution of in situ monitoring of phytoplankton communities. A key challenge for existing methods is in classifying and quantifying cells within the nanophytoplankton size range (2-20{\textmu}m). This is particularly difficult when there are similarities in morphology, making visual differentiation difficult for both trained taxonomists and machine learning based approaches. Here we present a rapid fluoro-electrochemical technique for classifying nanophytoplankton, and using a library of 52 diverse strains of nanophytoplankton we assess the accuracy of this technique based on two measurements at the individual level: charge required to reduce per cell chlorophyll a fluorescence by 50\%, and cell radius. We demonstrate a high degree of accuracy overall (\&gt;90\%) in categorising cells belonging to widely recognised key functional groups, however this is reduced when we consider the broader diversity of {\textquotedblleft}nano-phytoflagellates{\textquotedblright}. Notably, we observe that some groups, for example calcifying Isochrysidales, have much greater resilience to electrochemically driven oxidative conditions relative to others of a similar size, making them more easily categorised by the technique. The findings of this study present a promising step forward in advancing our toolkit for monitoring phytoplankton communities. We highlight that, for improved categorisation accuracy, future iterations of the method can be enhanced by measuring additional predictor variables with minimal adjustments to the set-up. In doing so, we foresee this technique being highly applicable, and potentially invaluable, for in situ classification and enumeration of the nanophytoplankton size fraction.</p>
},
	keywords = {RCC1, rcc1084, RCC1130, RCC1150, RCC1178, RCC1185, RCC1198, RCC1216, rcc1217, RCC1242, RCC1314, RCC1346, RCC1489, RCC1511, RCC1546, RCC1557, RCC1614, rcc1731, RCC191, RCC2570, RCC3598, RCC3696, RCC3776, RCC3780, RCC4207, RCC4221, RCC4273, RCC4657, RCC4660, RCC6, RCC623, RCC6516, RCC656, RCC678, RCC69, RCC74, RCC76, RCC8, RCC80, RCC81, RCC88, RCC911, RCC950},
	doi = {10.1002/lom3.10572},
	url = {https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lom3.10572},
	author = {Barton, Samuel and Yang, Minjun and Chen, Haotian and Batchelor-McAuley, Christopher and Compton, Richard and Bouman, Heather and Rickaby, Rosalind}
}
@article {dedman_shotgun_2023,
	title = {Shotgun proteomics reveals temperature-dependent regulation of major nutrient metabolism in coastal Synechococcus sp. WH5701},
	journal = {Algal Research},
	year = {2023},
	month = {oct},
	pages = {103279},
	abstract = {Marine cyanobacteria are major contributors to the oceanic carbon sink and are predicted to increase in numbers in the future warmed ocean. As a result, the influence of marine cyanobacteria on marine biogeochemical cycling will likely be enhanced. Associated with elevations in temperature the ocean will undergo increased stratification, reducing supply of essential nutrients to upper phototrophic layers. It is therefore critical that we resolve the manners by which cyanobacteria respond to variations in temperature, and consequences for major nutrient metabolism which may ultimately direct global biogeochemistry and trophic transfer. In this study we use the coastal Synechococcus sp. WH5701 to examine proteomic alterations in major nutrient (C, N and P) metabolic pathways following exposure to varying temperature. In response to temperature treatments, Synechococcus displayed higher rates of growth and photosynthetic efficiency when temperatures were raised from 17 {\textdegree}C to 23 {\textdegree}C and 28 {\textdegree}C, associated with a significant \textasciitilde30{\textendash}40 \% alteration in the cellular proteome. As temperatures increased, proteomic investment towards photosynthetic machinery appeared up-regulated, whilst abundance of RuBisCO was reduced, associated with an apparent alteration in CCM composition and carbon metabolism. N demand appeared to increase in-line with temperature, associated with alterations in the GS-GOGAT pathway, likely due to increased demand for and efficiency of protein synthesis. In contrast, P demand at the highest temperature appeared reduced as investment in the ribosome declines due to improved translation efficiency, whilst luxury P-storage appeared a feature of growth at low temperature. It appears likely that as seawater temperatures rise under ocean warming, the biochemical composition of cyanobacteria will be altered, increasing cellular C- and N- to P ratios, ultimately impacting upon their contribution to oceanic biogeochemical cycling.},
	keywords = {climate change, Ocean warming, phytoplankton, Proteomics: Marine biogeochemistry, rcc1084},
	issn = {2211-9264},
	doi = {10.1016/j.algal.2023.103279},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211926423003120},
	author = {Dedman, Craig J. and Barton, Samuel and Fournier, Marjorie and Rickaby, Rosalind E. M.}
}
@article {fan_quantifying_2022,
	title = {Quantifying the Extent of Calcification of a Coccolithophore Using a Coulter Counter},
	journal = {Analytical Chemistry},
	year = {2022},
	month = {sep},
	pages = {acs.analchem.2c01971},
	abstract = {Although, in principle, the Coulter Counter technique yields an absolute measure of particle volume, in practice, calibration is nearuniversally employed. For regularly shaped and non-biological samples, the use of latex beads for calibration can provide sufficient accuracy. However, this is not the case with particles encased in biogenically formed calcite. To date, there has been no effective route by which a Coulter Counter can be calibrated to enable the calcification of coccolithophores�single cells encrusted with biogenic calcite�to be quantified. Consequently, herein, we seek to answer the following question: to what extent can a Coulter Counter be used to provide accurate information regarding the calcite content of a singlespecies coccolithophore population? Through the development of a new calibration methodology, based on the measurement and dynamic tracking of the acid-driven calcite dissolution reaction, a route by which the cellular calcite content can be determined is presented. This new method allows, for the first time, a Coulter Counter to be used to yield an absolute measurement of the amount of calcite per cell.},
	keywords = {RCC1198, RCC1216, RCC1314},
	issn = {0003-2700, 1520-6882},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01971},
	url = {https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.2c01971},
	author = {Fan, Xinmeng and Batchelor-McAuley, Christopher and Yang, Minjun and Barton, Samuel and Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. and Bouman, Heather A. and Compton, Richard G.}
}
@article {yang_opto-electrochemical_2021,
	title = {Opto-Electrochemical Dissolution Reveals Coccolith Calcium Carbonate Content},
	journal = {Angewandte Chemie International Edition},
	volume = {60},
	number = {38},
	year = {2021},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/anie.202108435},
	pages = {20999{\textendash}21006},
	abstract = {Coccoliths are plates of biogenic calcium carbonate secreted by calcifying marine phytoplankton; annually these phytoplankton are responsible for exporting >1 billion tonnes (1015 g) of calcite to the deep ocean. Rapid and reliable methods for assessing the degree of calcification are technically challenging because the coccoliths are micron sized and contain picograms (pg) of calcite. Here we pioneer an opto-eletrochemical acid titration of individual coccoliths which allows 3D reconstruction of each individual coccolith via in situ optical imaging enabling direct inference of the coccolith mass. Coccolith mass ranging from 2 to 400 pg are reported herein, evidencing both inter- and intra-species variation over four different species. We foresee this scientific breakthrough, which is independent of knowledge regarding the species and calibration-free, will allow continuous monitoring and reporting of the degree of coccolith calcification in the changing marine environment.},
	keywords = {analytical methods, calcite dissolution, electrochemistry, global carbonate cycle, marine phytoplankton, RCC1130, RCC1198, RCC1216, RCC1314},
	issn = {1521-3773},
	doi = {10.1002/anie.202108435},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.202108435},
	author = {Yang, Minjun and Batchelor-McAuley, Christopher and Barton, Samuel and Rickaby, Rosalind E. M. and Bouman, Heather A. and Compton, Richard G.}
}
@article {Bestion2020,
	title = {Abrupt declines in marine phytoplankton production driven by warming and biodiversity loss in a microcosm experiment},
	journal = {Ecology Letters},
	volume = {23},
	number = {3},
	year = {2020},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1303,RCC1512,RCC4221,RCC623,RCC626,RCC652,RCC80,RCC834},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {457{\textendash}466},
	abstract = {Rising sea surface temperatures are expected to lead to the loss of phytoplankton biodiversity. However, we currently understand very little about the interactions between warming, loss of phytoplankton diversity and its impact on the oceans{\textquoteright} primary production. We experimentally manipulated the species richness of marine phytoplankton communities under a range of warming scenarios, and found that ecosystem production declined more abruptly with species loss in communities exposed to higher temperatures. Species contributing positively to ecosystem production in the warmed treatments were those that had the highest optimal temperatures for photosynthesis, implying that the synergistic impacts of warming and biodiversity loss on ecosystem functioning were mediated by thermal trait variability. As species were lost from the communities, the probability of taxa remaining that could tolerate warming diminished, resulting in abrupt declines in ecosystem production. Our results highlight the potential for synergistic effects of warming and biodiversity loss on marine primary production.},
	keywords = {biodiversity, biodiversity loss, climate change, ecosystem functioning, phytoplankton, RCC1303, rcc1512, RCC4221, RCC623, RCC626, RCC652, RCC80, RCC834, thermal per-},
	issn = {1461-023X},
	doi = {10.1111/ele.13444},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13444},
	author = {Bestion, Elvire and Barton, Samuel and Garc{\'\i}a, Francisca C. and Warfield, Ruth and Yvon-Durocher, Gabriel},
	editor = {Hillebrand, Helmut}
}
@article {Barton2020,
	title = {Evolutionary temperature compensation of carbon fixation in marine phytoplankton},
	journal = {Ecology Letters},
	year = {2020},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1303,RCC1512,RCC1773,RCC4221,RCC623,RCC626,RCC652,RCC80,RCC834},
	month = {feb},
	pages = {ele.13469},
	abstract = {The efficiency of carbon sequestration by the biological pump could decline in the coming decades because respiration tends to increase more with temperature than photosynthesis. Despite these differences in the short-term temperature sensitivities of photosynthesis and respiration, it remains unknown whether the long-term impacts of global warming on metabolic rates of phytoplankton can be modulated by evolutionary adaptation. We found that respiration was consistently more temperature dependent than photosynthesis across 18 diverse marine phytoplankton, resulting in universal declines in the rate of carbon fixation with short-term increases in temperature. Long-term experimental evolution under high temperature reversed the short-term stimulation of metabolic rates, resulting in increased rates of carbon fixation. Our findings suggest that thermal adaptation may therefore have an ameliorating impact on the efficiency of phytoplankton as primary mediators of the biological carbon pump.},
	keywords = {climate change, evolutionary ecology, metabolism, phytoplankton physiology, RCC1303, rcc1512, RCC1773, RCC4221, RCC623, RCC626, RCC652, RCC80, RCC834, thermal performance curves},
	issn = {1461-023X},
	doi = {10.1111/ele.13469},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13469},
	author = {Barton, Samuel and Jenkins, James and Buckling, Angus and Schaum, C.-Elisa and Smirnoff, Nicholas and Raven, John A. and Yvon-Durocher, Gabriel},
	editor = {Ezenwa, Vanessa}
}
@article {Barton2019,
	title = {Quantifying the temperature dependence of growth rate in marine phytoplankton within and across species},
	journal = {Limnology and Oceanography},
	year = {2019},
	note = {tex.mendeley-tags: RCC1303,RCC1512,RCC1731,RCC1773,RCC4221,RCC539,RCC6,RCC623,RCC626,RCC652,RCC653,RCC655,RCC834,RCC88},
	abstract = {Abstract Models of marine biogeochemistry capture the effects of temperature on phytoplankton growth via the monotonic, exponential Eppley coefficient, without considering the physiological or evolutionary processes that underpin this emergent, across-species temperature response. Here, we investigated both the within- and across-species temperature dependence of growth rate for 18 species of marine phytoplankton. We found that the temperature dependence of growth rate derived across species was lower than the average temperature response within species. This finding supports a {\textquotedblleft}partial compensation{\textquotedblright} model of thermal adaptation and suggests that adaptation can partially compensate for the underlying thermodynamic effects of temperature on physiological rates observed within species. We also found that thermal tolerance traits (e.g. the optimum temperature for growth) systematically covaried with a host of key functional traits (e.g. cell size, elemental composition). Consequently, turnover in species composition in a warmer ocean, linked to interspecific variability in thermal tolerance traits, could be associated with major shifts in the functional trait composition of marine phytoplankton communities with far reaching implications for ecosystem functioning.},
	keywords = {RCC1303, rcc1512, rcc1731, RCC1773, RCC4221, rcc539, RCC6, RCC623, RCC626, RCC652, RCC653, RCC655, RCC834, RCC88},
	issn = {0024-3590},
	doi = {10.1002/lno.11170},
	author = {Barton, Samuel and Yvon-Durocher, Gabriel}
}
