Phaeocystis pouchetii (Hariot) Lagerheim, 1893 regularly dominates phytoplankton blooms in the Arctic. Through zooplankton grazing and microbial activity, it is considered to be a key resource for the entire marine food web but the actual relevance of biomass transfer to higher trophic levels is ...
The marine microbiome contributes to nearly half of our planet’s net primary production. It plays a central role in the ocean’s carbon cycle through both passive and active release of metabolites into seawater, forming a pool of dissolved compounds known as the marine exometabolome.