Tag: biogeochemistry

The biogeochemistry of phytoplankton diversity and distribution in the open ocean: a broad view of marine primary producers and a close-up of coccolithophorids

PART ONE: A global perspective of marine primary productivity Picture the ocean; what do you see? Perhaps a view of waves crashing against the shell-littered sand on the beach comes to mind, or maybe images of creatures large and small: whales, sharks, fishes, seahorses, and crabs. How many peopl...