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Environmental structuring of marine plankton phenology

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, September 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)

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Title
Environmental structuring of marine plankton phenology
Published in
Nature Ecology & Evolution, September 2017
DOI 10.1038/s41559-017-0287-3
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Authors

Daniel G. Boyce, Brian Petrie, Kenneth T. Frank, Boris Worm, William C. Leggett

Abstract

Seasonal cycles of primary production (phenology) critically influence biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem structure and climate. In the oceans, primary production is dominated by microbial phytoplankton that drift with currents, and show rapid turnover and chaotic dynamics, factors that have hindered understanding of their phenology. We used all available observations of upper-ocean phytoplankton concentration (1995-2015) to describe global patterns of phytoplankton phenology, the environmental factors that structure them, and their relationships to terrestrial patterns. Phytoplankton phenologies varied strongly by latitude and productivity regime: those in high-production regimes were governed by insolation, whereas those in low-production regimes were constrained by vertical mixing. In eight of ten ocean regions, our findings contradict the hypothesis that phytoplankton phenologies are coherent at basin scales. Lastly, the spatial organization of phenological patterns in the oceans was broadly similar to those on land, suggesting an overarching effect of insolation on the phenology of primary producers globally.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 118 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 23%
Researcher 25 21%
Student > Master 15 13%
Student > Bachelor 8 7%
Professor 7 6%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 23 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 36 31%
Environmental Science 29 25%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 15 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 <1%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 28 24%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 December 2021.
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#1,051,593
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#80
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