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Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean
BACKGROUND: Despite enormous environmental variability linked to glacial/interglacial climates of the Pleistocene, we have recently shown that marine diatom communities evolved slowly through gradual changes over the past 1.5 million years. Identifying the causes of this ecological stability is key...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010037 |
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author | Cermeño, Pedro de Vargas, Colomban Abrantes, Fátima Falkowski, Paul G. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Despite enormous environmental variability linked to glacial/interglacial climates of the Pleistocene, we have recently shown that marine diatom communities evolved slowly through gradual changes over the past 1.5 million years. Identifying the causes of this ecological stability is key for understanding the mechanisms that control the tempo and mode of community evolution. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: If community assembly were controlled by local environmental selection rather than dispersal, environmental perturbations would change community composition, yet, this could revert once environmental conditions returned to previous-like states. We analyzed phytoplankton community composition across >10(4) km latitudinal transects in the Atlantic Ocean and show that local environmental selection of broadly dispersed species primarily controls community structure. Consistent with these results, three independent fossil records of marine diatoms over the past 250,000 years show cycles of community departure and recovery tightly synchronized with the temporal variations in Earth's climate. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Changes in habitat conditions dramatically alter community structure, yet, we conclude that the high dispersal of marine planktonic microbes erases the legacy of past environmental conditions, thereby decreasing the tempo of community evolution. |
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spelling | pubmed-28488642010-04-05 Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean Cermeño, Pedro de Vargas, Colomban Abrantes, Fátima Falkowski, Paul G. PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Despite enormous environmental variability linked to glacial/interglacial climates of the Pleistocene, we have recently shown that marine diatom communities evolved slowly through gradual changes over the past 1.5 million years. Identifying the causes of this ecological stability is key for understanding the mechanisms that control the tempo and mode of community evolution. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: If community assembly were controlled by local environmental selection rather than dispersal, environmental perturbations would change community composition, yet, this could revert once environmental conditions returned to previous-like states. We analyzed phytoplankton community composition across >10(4) km latitudinal transects in the Atlantic Ocean and show that local environmental selection of broadly dispersed species primarily controls community structure. Consistent with these results, three independent fossil records of marine diatoms over the past 250,000 years show cycles of community departure and recovery tightly synchronized with the temporal variations in Earth's climate. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Changes in habitat conditions dramatically alter community structure, yet, we conclude that the high dispersal of marine planktonic microbes erases the legacy of past environmental conditions, thereby decreasing the tempo of community evolution. Public Library of Science 2010-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2848864/ /pubmed/20368810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010037 Text en Cermeno et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Cermeño, Pedro de Vargas, Colomban Abrantes, Fátima Falkowski, Paul G. Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean |
title | Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean |
title_full | Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean |
title_fullStr | Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean |
title_full_unstemmed | Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean |
title_short | Phytoplankton Biogeography and Community Stability in the Ocean |
title_sort | phytoplankton biogeography and community stability in the ocean |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010037 |
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