Reading Material

Week 6: Modeling and Synthesis

July 22, 2006 - Lecture: "Satellite oceanography as a research tool in pelagic microbial ecology" - R. Letelier

Moore, K. and Doney, S.C.(2006) Remote sensing observations of ocean physical and biological properties in the region of the Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX). Journal of Geophysical Research, 111 1-12.

Esaias, W.E (1998) An Overview of MODIS Capabilities
for Ocean Science Observations. Ieee Transections on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 36 1250-1265.

July 23, 2006 - Analyzing complex systems

Harris, L.A, et al. (2006) Allometric Laws and Prediction in Estuarine and Coastal Ecology. Estuaries and Coasts, 29 343-347.

Duarte C. M. and Agusti´ S. (2004) Controls on planktonic metabolism in the Bay of Blanes, northwestern Mediterranean littoral. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49(6) 2162–2170.

Gasol J. M. (1997) Biomass distribution in marine planktonic communities. Limnol. Oceanogr. 42(6) 1353-1363.

Gasol J. M. and Duarte C. M. (1999) Comparative analyses in aquatic microbial ecology: how far do they go? FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 31 99-106.

Duarte C. M. et al., (2001) Evidence for a heterotrophic subtropical northeast Atlantic. Limnol. Oceanogr. 46(2) 425–428.

Schleper C. et al., (2005) Genomic studies of uncultivated archaea. Nature Reviews | Microbiology. 3 479-488.

DeLong E. F. and Karl D. M. (2005) Genomic perspectives in microbial oceanography. Nature. 437 336-342.

Brown J. H et al., (2004) Toward a metabolic theory of ecology. Ecology, 85(7) 1771–1789.

Duarte C. M., Methods in Comparative Functional Ecology. Center for Advanced Studiesof Blanes, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Blanes Spain. 1-8

Arístegui J. et al., (2004) Respiration in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the oceans. Chapter 10 181-205.

Aristegui J. et al., (2005) Active mesopelagic prokaryotes support high respiration in the subtropical northeast Atlantic Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. 32 1-4.

Duarte C. M. et al., "The Limits to Models in Ecology".

Agawin N. S. R. et al., (2000) Nutrient and temperature control of contribution of picoplankton to phytoplankton biomass and production. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45(3) 591-600.

Duarte C. M. and Agusti S. (1998) The CO2 balance of unproductive aquatic ecosystems. Science. 281 234-236.

July 24, 2006 - Lecture: Experiments and observations

Agusti´ S and Duarte C. M. (2005) Threshold of gross primary production for planktonic metabolic balance in the Southern Ocean: An experimental test. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50(4) 1334–1339.

Duarte C. M. et al., (2005) Experimental test of bacteria–phytoplankton coupling in the Southern Ocean. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50(6)1844–1854.

Dachs J. et al., (2005) High atmosphere-ocean exchange of organic carbon in the NE subtropical Atlantic. Geophysical Research Letters. 32 1-4.

del Giorgio P. A. and Duarte C. M. (2002) Respiration in the open ocean. Nature. 420 379-384.

July 25, 2006 - Lecture: “Prochlorococcus as a model system”- Z. Johnson

Rocap, G., F.W. Larimer, J. Lamerdin, S. Malfatti, P. Chain, N.A. Ahlgren, A. Arellano, M. Coleman, L. Hauser, W.R. Hess, Z.I. Johnson, M. Land, D. Lindell, A.F. Post, W. Regala, M. Shah, S.L. Shaw, C. Steglich, M.B. Sullivan, C.S. Ting, A. Tolonen, E.A. Webb, E.R. Zinser, and S.W. Chisholm. 2003. Genome divergence in two Prochlorococcus ecotypes reflects oceanic niche differentiation. Nature 424: 1042-1047.

July 26, 2006 - Modeling fluxes and inventories - S. Doney

Merton R. K. (1968) The Matthew Effect in Science. Science. 159(3810) 56-63

Doney, S.C., K. Lindsay, J.K. Moore, 2003: Global ocean carbon cycle modeling, Ocean Biogeochemistry, ed. M. Fasham, Springer, 217-238.

Doney, S.C., M.R. Abbott, J.J. Cullen, D.M. Karl, and L. Rothstein, 2004: From genes to ecosystems: the ocean’s new frontier, Frontiers Ecology Environ., 2, 457-466.

Laws, E. A. Jr., H. Ducklow, J. J. McCarthy, Temperature effects on export production in the open ocean, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 14(4), 1231-1246, 10.1029/1999GB001229, 2000.