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PT J
TI Phytoplankton Orientation in a Turbulent Ocean: A Microscale Perspective
BT 
AF BASTERRETXEA, G.
   FONT-MUNOZ, Joan Salvador
   TUVAL, I
AS 1:1;2:2,3,4;3:1,5;
FF 1:;2:;3:;
C1 Univ Balearic Isl, Mediterranean Inst Adv Studies, Dept Marine Ecol, Esporles, Spain.
   Spanish Natl Res Council, Esporles, Spain.
   Univ Brest, Univ Bretagne Occidentale, French Res Inst Exploitat Sea, Inst Rech Dev,CNRS, Brest, France.
   Sea French Inst Sea Res, French Res Inst Exploitat Sea, Dynam Ecosyst Cotiers Lab Ecol Pelag, Plouzane, France.
   Univ Balearic Isl, Dept Phys, Palma De Mallorca, Spain.
C2 UNIV ILLES BALEARS, SPAIN
   SPANISH NATL RES COUNCIL, SPAIN
   UBO, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   UNIV ILLES BALEARS, SPAIN
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
TC 16
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00621/73261/72476.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;phytoplankton;microscale;turbulence;orientation;shear
AB Phytoplankton are by definition autotrophic microorganisms that passively drift with fluid motion. Accordingly, the traditional view of a turbulence-homogenized phytoplankton distribution in the ocean, where cells randomly organize and interact, is deeply rooted in biological oceanography studies. However, increasing understanding of microscopic processes in the ocean is revealing a world of microscale patterns resulting from cell behaviors and fluid-cell interactions that challenges this vision. Autotrophic cells have developed active (i.e., flagella) and passive (i.e., morphological structures and vesicles) motility mechanisms that allow them different degrees of spatial control. Their complex interaction with the ocean physicochemical landscape commonly results in small-scale spatial heterogeneities and non-isotropic orientations that can strongly influence ecosystem level processes. Cell orientation, in particular, is fundamental for key biological functions such as sensing, metabolism, locomotion, chain formation, or sexual reproduction. Moreover, preferential alignment of elongated cells can modulate the propagation of light through the ocean and is fundamental for accurate interpretation of remote sensing data. Innovative observational and experimental techniques (e.g., in situ holography, laser diffractometry, etc.) allowing the subtle analysis of cell-fluid interactions are revealing that, at the microscopic level, organisms present well defined orientation and interaction patterns under prevalent conditions in the sea. Thus, the interplay of biology, fluid dynamics, and optics may shape, by means of anisotropic cell distributions, pivotal cross-scale aspects of phytoplankton ecology. 
PY 2020
PD MAR
SO Frontiers In Marine Science
PU Frontiers Media Sa
VL 7
IS 185
UT 000522286700001
DI 10.3389/fmars.2020.00185
ID 73261
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