Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre
S. J. Beckett, D. Demory, A. R. Coenen, J. R. Casey, M. Dugenne, C. L. Follett, P. Connell, M. C. G. Carlson, S. K. Hu, S. T. Wilson, D. Muratore, R. A. Rodriguez-Gonzalez, S. Peng, K. W. Becker, D. R. Mende, , J. S. Weitz
The paper develops multitrophic models to investigate top-down and bottom-up drivers of Prochlorococcus population dynamics in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, finding grazers are the primary top-down factor despite high viral densities.
bioRxiv · Jun 15, 2021Ecology