Jack Chen, Professor

Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Simon Fraser University

1. Barnes et al., 2015. Drivers and effects of Karenia mikimotoi blooms in the western English Channel. Progress in Oceanography.
2. Carstensen et al., 2015. Phytoplankton blooms in estuarine and coastal waters: Seasonal patterns and key species. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.
3. Caroppo et al., 2015. Phytoplankton dynamics with a special emphasis on harmful algal blooms in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Italy). . Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
4. Chapman, 2015. Harmful Algal Blooms Should Be Treated as Contaminants. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management.
5. Castilla et al., 2015. Quantification of phytoplankton bloom dynamics by citizen scientists in urban and peri-urban environments. Environ Monit Assess.
6. Kopf et al., 2015. Metatranscriptome of marine bacterioplankton during winter time in the North Sea assessed by total RNA sequencing. (Marine Genomics)
7. Kindh et al., 2014. Disentangling seasonal bacterioplankton population dynamics by high-frequency sampling. (Environmental Microbiology)
   Notes: Important paper. Bacterial community turnover times in surface waters are typically 3-5 days (Noble and Fuhrman, 2000).
   
8. Klindworth et al., 2014. Diversity and activity of marine bacterioplankton during a diatom bloom in the North Sea assessed by total RNA and pyrotag sequencing. (Marine Genomics)
   Notes: "...bulk of its biomass consists of uni- to pluricellular algae like diatoms and haptophytes."
   
9. Morris et al., 2013. Microbial syntrophy: interaction for the common good. (FEMS Microbio. Rev.)
10. McLean, 2013. "Eco-omics": a revew of the application of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics for the study of the ecology of harmful algae. (Microb Ecol)
11. Berdalet et al., 2013. Understanding harmful algae in stratified systems: Review of progress and future directions. Deep-Sea Research II.
12. Teeling et al., 2012. Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom. (Science)
13. Zinger et al., 2011. Global Patterns of Bacterial Beta-Diversity in Seafloor and Seawater Ecosystems. (PLoS ONE)
14. Cuvelier, 2010. Targed metagenomics and ecology of globally important uncultured eukaryotic phytoplankton. PNAS.
15. Hallegraeff, 2010. Ocean climate change, phytoplankton community response, and harmful algal blooms: a formidable predictive challenge. (J. Phycol.)
16. Heisler et al., 2008. Eutrophication and harmful algal blooms: A scientific consensus. (Harmful Algae)
17. Smayda, 2008. Complexity in the eutrophication harmful algal bloom relationship, with comment on the importance of grazing. (Harmful Algae)
18. Azam et al., 2007. Microbial structuring of marine ecosystems. (Nature Reviews Microbiology)
19. Irigoien et al., 2005. Phytoplankton blooms: a "loophole" in microzooplankton grazing impact? (Journal of plankton Research)
20. Landsberg, 2002. The effect of harmful algal blooms on aquatic blooms. (Reviews in Fisheres Science)
21. Anderson et al., 2002. Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: nutrient sources, composition, and consequences. (Estuaries)
22. Zingone et al., 2000. The diversity of harmful algal blooms: a challenge for science and management. (Ocean and Coaltal management)
23. Harvell et al., 1999. Emerging marine diseases: climate links and anthropogenic factors. (Science)
24. Anderson, 1997. Turning back the harmful red tide. (Nature)
25. Smayda, 1997. Harmful algal blooms: their ecophysiology and general relevane to phytoplankton blooms in the sea. (Limnology and Oceanography)
26. Vitousek et al., 1997. Human Domination of Earthbs Ecosystems. (Science)
27. Ruiz et al., 1997. Global Invasions of Marine and Estuarine Habitats by non-indigenous species: mechanisms, extent, and consequences. (American Zoology)
28. Smayda, 1997. What is a bloom? A commentary. (Limnology and Oceanography)
    Notes: Blooms intrinsically are beneficial to food-web processes.
    

1. Xu et al., 2015. Modeling of oil spill beaching along the coast of the Bohai Sea, China. (Front. Earth Sci.)
2. Dong et al., 2014. SSU rDNA Sequence Diversity and Seasonally Differentiated Distribution of Nanoplanktonic Ciliates in Neritic Bohai and Yellow Seas as Revealed by T-RFLP. (PLoS ONE)
3. Gao et al., 2014. Pollution status of the Bohai Sea: An overview of the environmental quality assessment related trace metals. (Environment International)
4. Liu et al., 2014. Assessment of the summer-autumn bloom in the Bohai Sea using satellite images to identify the roles of wind mixing and light conditions. (Journal of Marine Systems)
5. Liu, 2013. Status of marine biodiversity of the China Seas. (PLoS ONE)
6. Wu et al., 2013. The spatial and temporal characteristics of harmful algal blooms in the southwest Bohai sea. (Continental Shelf Research)
7. Yin et al., 2013. Phytoplankton composition in Bohai Bay Tianjin Coastal Area in Summer From 2008 to 2012. (Advances in Marine Science)
8. Ying et al., 2013. Abundance and biomass of planktonic ciliates in the sea area around Zhangzi Island, Northern Yellow Sea. (Acta Ecologica Sinica)
9. Yi et al., 2013. 2009-2011 Bohai Bay red tide. (Journal of Tianjin University of Science and Technology)
10. Yang et al., 2012. Environmental factors affecting chlorophyll-a concentration in the Bohai Bay. (Oceanologia et Limnology)
11. Kong et al., 2012. Pigment characterization for the 2011 bloom in Qinhuangdao implicated brown tide events in China. (Chinese Journal of Ocenanology and Liminology)
12. Zhang et al., 2012. Emergence of brown tides caused by Aureococcus anophagefferens Hargraves et Sieburth in China. (Harmful Algae)
13. Sun et al., 2011. Long-term changes of phytoplankton community structure in the Jiaozhou Bay. (Oceanologia et Limnology)
14. Song et al., 2011. A review of coastal phytoplankton bloom dynamics and phenology. (Advances in Earth Science)
15. Kan et al., 2010. Study on variation trend of nutrient salts in Bohai Bay. (Marine Environmental Science)
16. Xu et al., 2010. Changes in nitrogen and phosphorus and their effects on phytoplankton in the Bohai Sea. (Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Liminology)
17. Rusch et al., 2007. The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific. (PLoS Biology)
18. Liu and Yin, 2007. Annual cycle of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the Bohai Sea: A model study. (Continental Shelf Research)
19. Sogin et al., 2006. Microbial diersity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere". (PNAS)
20. Son et al., 2006. Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in the Fronts of the East China Sea. (Ocean Science Journal)
21. Zhang et al., 2006. Monitoring and managing pollution load in Bohai Sea, PR China. (Ocean and Coastal Management)
22. Jiang et al., 2005. The variation trend of nutrient salts in the Bohai Sea. (Marine Fisheries Research)
23. Zhao and Wei, 2005. The Influence of Physical Factors on the Variation of Phytoplankton and Nutrients in the Bohai Sea. (Journal of Oceanography)
24. Wei et al., 2004. Phytoplankton dynamics in the Bohai observations and modelling. Journal of Marine Systems
25. Sun et al., 2004. The effects of zooplankton grazing on the development of red tides. (Acta Ecologica Sinica)
26. Zhang et al., 2004. Dynamics of inorganic nutrient species in the Bohai seawaters. (Journal of Marine Systems)
27. 2004. National Report on HAB in China.
28. Wei et al., 2004. Phytoplankton dynamics in the Bohai Sea, observations and modelling. (Journal of Marine Systems)
29. Sun et al., 2004. Phytoplankton Community of th Bohai Sea in Winter 2001. (Periodical of Ocean University of China)
30. Sun et al., 2004. The nets-phytoplankton community of the central Bohai Sea and its adjacent waters in spring 1999. (Acta Ecologica Sinica)
31. Wang, 2003. Species composition and quantiy variation of phytoplankton in inshore waters of the Bohai Sea. (Marine Fisheries Research)
32. Li et al., 2003. Grazing impact of copepods on phytoplankton in the Bohai Sea. (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science)
33. Sun et al., 2003. The phytoplankton sampling and analysis strategies in the study of the Bohai Sea ecosystem dynamics. (Acta Oceanologyica Sinica)
34. Sun et al., 2003. The chlorophyll a concentration and estimating of primary productivity in the Bohai Sea in 1998-1999. (Acta Ecologica Sinica)
35. Sun et al., 2002. The preliminary study on phytoplankton community structure in the central Bohai sea and the Bohai straight. (OCEANOLOGIA ET LIMNOLOGIA SINICA)
36. Zhuang et al., 2001. Sequence determination and analysis of 18S rDNA and internal transcribed space. (Oceanologia et Limnology Sinica)

1. Chen et al., 2015. Transcriptomic analyses of nitrogen assimilation processes in a Chinese strain of Aureococcus anophagefferens. Genomics Data.
2. Fuhrman et al., 2015. Marine microbial community dynamics and their ecological interpretation. (Nature Reviews Microbiology)
   Notes: Stated that (1) typical average generation times of marine plankton are approximately a day in surface waters, and longer in deep waters. In the offshore surface ocean, estimated whole community biomass turnover times (which are derived from microbial growth rates) range from less than a day to about a week, (2) "Therefore, additional information, beyond that which can be derived from omics, is needed to predict community functions and interactions between organisms. ". (3) two complementary approaches: system-wide investigation and reductionist approach for examining the system gene by gene and protein by protein.
   
3. Armbrust and Palumbi, 2015. Uncovering hidden worlds of ocean biodiversity. (Science)
   Notes: These diverse interactions across a large number of different species raise the question of whether coevolution acts largely between pairs of closely interacting species or on many species interacting within consortia. The greatest challenge will be to uncover unifying principles behind these interactions. .
   
4. Bork et al., 2015. Tara Oceans studies plankton at planetary scale. (Science)
5. Villar et al., 2015. Environmental characteristics of Agulhas rings affect interocean plankton transport. (Science)
6. Brum et al., 2015. Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities. (Science)
7. Sunagawa et al., 2015. Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome. (Science)
8. de Vargas et al., 2015. Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean. (Science)
9. Lima-Mendez et al., 2015. Determinants of community structure in the global plankton interactome. (Science)
   Notes: Described a term "interactome", which was based on co-occurrence of different species. Environmental factors are incomplete predictors of community structure.
   
10. Amin et al., 2015. Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria. (Nature)
11. Yang et al., 2015. Illumina sequencing-based analysis of free-living bacterial community dynamics during an Akashiwo sanguine bloom in Xiamen sea, China. (Scientific Report)
    Notes: Descirbed bacterial community dynamics in a bloom in China.
    
12. Pearson et al., 2015. Metatranscriptomes reveal functional variation in diatom communities from the Antarctic Peninsula. (ISME)
13. Palenik, 2015. Molecular Mechanisms by Which Marine Phytoplankton Respond to Their Dynamic Chemical Environment. (Annual Review of Marine Science)
14. Dix and Hanisak, 2015. Microzooplankton grazing experiments in the subtropical Indian River Lagoon, Florida challenge assumptions of the dilution technique. (Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology)
15. Zou et al., 2015. Excess copper induced proteomic changes in the marine brown algae Sargassum fusiforme. (Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety)
16. Boon et al., 2014. Interactions in the microbiome: communities of organisms and communities of genes. (FEMS Microbiology Reviews)
17. McKie-Krisberg and Sanders, 2014. Phagotrophy by the picoeukaryotic green alga Micromonas: implications for Arctic Oceans. (ISME)
    Notes: Showed that the picoeukaryotic green alga Micromonas is mixotrophic, which is interesting because green algae were widely considered as a purely phtosynthetic group. Argued that a more natural delineation for picoeukaryotes (PPE) is <= 3 um (instead of <= 2um).
    
18. McKie-Krisberg et al., 2014. Physiological Responses of Three Species of Antarctic Mixotrophic Phytoflagellates to Changes in Light and Dissolved Nutrients. (Microbial Ecology)
19. Buchan et al., 2014. Master recyclers: features and functions of bacteria associated with phytoplankton blooms. (Nature Reviews Microbiology)
20. Gong et al., 2014. Advance in study of the impacts of Aureococcus anophagefferens. (Marine Sciences)
21. Anabalon et al., 2014. The structure of planktonic communities under variable coastal upwelling conditions off Cape Ghir (310N) in the Canary Current System (NW Africa). (Progress in Oceanography)
22. Pearson et al., 2015. Metatranscriptomes reveal functional variation in diatom communities from the Antarctic Peninsula. (ISME)
23. Alexander et al., 2015. Metatranscriptome analyses indicate resource partitioning between diatoms in the field. (PNAS)
24. Guo et al., 2015. A quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay for the enumeration of brown tide algae Aureococcus anophagefferens in coastal waters of Qinhuangdao. (Acta Oceanologica Sinica)
25. Wang et al., 2014. Physiological response study on Aureococcus anophagefferens and Thalassiosira pseudonana underunder nitrogen limitation and recovery conditions. (Chinese Reports Online)
26. Wurch et al., 2014. Expression of a xanthine permease and phosphate transporter in cultures and field populations of the harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens: tracking nutritional deficiency during brown tides. (Environmental Microbiology)
27. Wang et al., 2014. A numerical model study on multi-species harmful algal blooms coupled with background ecological fields. (Acta Oceanologica Sinica)
28. Unrein et al., 2014. Mixotrophic haptophytes are key bacterial grazers in oligotrophic coastal waters. (ISME)
29. Lu et al., 2014. Causative species of harmful algal blooms in Chinese coastal waters. (Algological Studies)
30. Cooper et al., 2014. Metatranscriptome profiling of a harmful algal bloom. (Harmful Algae)
31. Keeling et al., 2014. The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing. (PLoS Biology)
32. Chappell et al., 2014. Genetic indicators of iron limitation in wild populations of Thalassiosira oceanica from the northeast Pacific Ocean. (ISME)
33. Frischkorn et al., 2014. De novo assembly of Aureococcus anophagefferens transcriptomes reveals diverse responses to the low nutrient and low light conditions present during blooms. (Frontiers in Microbiology)
34. Dong et al., 2014. Understanding Strategy of Nitrate and Urea Assimilation in a Chinese Strain of Aureococcus anophagefferens through RNA-Seq Analysis. (PLoS ONE)
35. Phlips et al., 2014. From Red Tides to Green and Brown Tides: Bloom Dynamics in a Restricted Subtropical Lagoon Under Shifting Climatic Conditions. (Estuaries and Coasts)
36. Durham et al., 2013. Turbulence drives microscale pathes of motile phytoplankton. (Nature Communications)
37. Segura et al., 2013. Competition Drives Clumpy Species Coexistence in Estuarine Phytoplankton. (Scientific Reports)
    Notes: Described a term called "clumpy coexistence" of "coexistence of functionally equivalent species".
    
38. Lai et al., 2013. Advances on the genome of algae. (Hereditas)
39. Mclean, 2013. Eco-omics - A review of the applicaon of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics for the study of the ecology of harmful algae. (Microbial Ecology)
    Notes: For any HAB species, whether we have bloom models or not, we have knowledge gaps concerning the mechanistic links between the environmental conditions and the genetic and cellular responses of organisms that ultimately dictate the ecology of these harmful algae. The introduction of molecular tools is increasingly being applied to address these gaps and uncover the answers to such questions as why/how do these species form blooms? and of those that produce toxins, why/how/when do they produce toxins?
    
40. Moore et al., 2013. Processes and patterns of oceanic nutrient limitation. (Nature Geoscience)
41. Thomas et al., 2013. A global pattern of thermal adaptation in marine phytoplankton. (Science)
42. Tubay et al., 2013. The paradox of enrichment in phytoplankto by induced competitive interactions.(Scientifi Reports)
43. Ottesen et al., 2014. Multispecies diel transcriptional oscillations in open ocean heterotrophic bacterial assemblages. (Science)
44. Ottesen et al., 2013. Pattern and synchrony of gene expression among sympatric marine microbial populations. (PNAS)
45. Zhang et al., 2013. Roles of mixotrophy in blooms of different dinoflagellates: Implications from the growth experiment. (Harmful Algae)
46. Smetacek and Zingone, 2013. Green and golden seaweed tides on the rise. (Nature)
47. Read et al., 2013. Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution. (Nature)
48. Gobler et al., 2013. The central role of selenium in the biochemistry and ecology of the harmful pelagophyte, Aureococcus anophagefferens. (ISME)
49. Williams et al., 2013. The role of planktonic Flavobacteria in processing algal organic matter in coastal East Antarctica revealed using metagenomics and metaproteomics. (Environmental Microbiology)
50. Cicily et al., 2013. Occurrence of a multi-species diatom bloom dominated by Proboscia alata (Brightwell) Sandstorm along the southwest coast of India. (Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies)
51. Fernandez-Gomez et al., 2013. Ecology of marine Bacteroidetes: a comparative genomics approach. (ISME)
52. Flynn et al., 2013. Misuse of the phytoplanktonzooplankton dichotomy: the need to assign organisms as mixotrophs within plankton functional types. (Journal of Plankton Research)
    Notes: Proposed that mixotrophy should be recognized as a major contributor to plankton dynamics.
    
53. Gobler et al., 2013. Expansion of harmful brown tides caused by the pelagophyte, Aureoumbra lagunensis DeYoe et Stockwell, to the US east coast. (Harmful Algae)
54. Wilken et al., 2013. Mixotrophic organisms become more heterotrophic with rising temperature. (Ecology Letters)
55. Rottberger, 2013. Ecophysiology of mixotrophic flagellates. (Ph.D. Thesis)
56. Caron et al., 2012. Marine protistan diversity. Ann Rev. Mar. Sci.
57. Charffron et al., 2012. A global network of coexisting microbes from environmental and whole-genome sequence data. (Genome Research)
    Notes: Many of the coexisting lineages were phylogenetically closely related, but a significant number of distant associations were observed as well.
    
58. Gilbert et al., 2012. Defining seasonal marine microbial community dynamics.
    Notes: The results suggested that seasonal changes in environmental variables are more important than trophic interactions.
    (ISME)
59. Falkowski, 2012. The power of plankton. (Nature)
    Notes: An very interesting assay on the importance of plankton in global climate change.
    
60. Arrigo et al., 2012. Massive phytoplankton blooms under arctic sea ice. (Science)
61. Gowen et al., 2012. Phytoplankton and the balance of nature, an opinion. (Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science)
62. Sommer et al., 2012. Beyond the Plankton Ecology Group (PEG) Model: Mechanisms Driving Plankton Succession. (Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics)
63. Berge et al., 2012. Marine microalgae attack and feed on metazoans. (ISME)
64. Mason et al., 2012. Meta genome, metatranscriptome and single-cell sequencing reveal microbial response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (ISME)
65. Marchetti et al., 2012. Comparative metat ranscriptomics identifies molecular bases for the physiological responses of phytoplankton to varying iron availability. (PNAS)
66. Gobler and Sunda, 2012. Ecosystem disruptive algal blooms of the brown tide species, Aureococcus anophagefferens and Aureoumbra lagunensis. (Harmful Algae)
67. Wurch et al., 2012. Nutrient-regulated transcriptional responses in the brown tide-forming alga Aureococcus anophagefferens. (Environmental Microbiology)
68. Gobler et al., 2012. Niche of harmful alga Aureococcus anophagefferens revealed through ecogenomics. (PNAS)
69. Giovannoni and Vergin, 2012. Seasonality in Ocean Microbial Communities. (Science)
70. Heywood et al., 2011. Capturing diversity of marine heterotrophic protists: one cell at a time. (ISME)
71. Massana, 2011. Eukaryotic Picoplankton in surface oceans. (Annual. Rev. Microbiol)
    Notes: The eukaryotic picoplankton is a heterogeneous collection of small protists 1 to 3 um in size populating surface oceans at abundance of 10e2 to 10e4 cells/ml. Pigmented cells are important primary producers that are at the base of food webs. Colorless cells are mostly bacterivores and play key roles in channeling bacteria to higher trophic levels as well as in nutrient recycling. Mixotrophy and parasitism are relevant but less investigated trophic paths. On the one hand, bottom-up forces include environmental constraints (temperature, oxygen) and resource availability (food, light, nutrients) and are expected to provide an upper limit to growth rates. On the other hand, top-down forces such as predation and viral infection may control the realized abundances. Bottom-up and top-down forces operate on individuals and populations, so intrinsic specific differences in resource acquisition and predation-viral susceptibility may affect the final observed trends.
    
72. Jeong, 2011. Mixotrophy in Red Tide Algae Raphidophytes. (Eukaryotic Microbiology)
73. Zhang et al., 2011. Will harmful dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi grow phagotrophically? (Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Liminology)
74. Kang et al., 2011. Mixotrophy in the Newly Described Phototrophic Dinoflagellate Woloszynskia cincta from Western Korean Waters: Feeding Mechanism, Prey Species and Effect of Prey Concentration. (Eukaryotic Microbiology)
75. Yoon et al., 2011. Single-Cell Genomics Reveals Organismal Interactions in Uncultivated Marine Protists. (Science)
76. Kruk et al., 2011. Phytoplankton community composition can be predicted best in terms of morphological groups. (Limnol. Oceanogr.)
77. Karsenti et al., 2011. A holistic approch to marine eco-systems biology. (PLoS Biology)
    Notes: This system is driven by a complex ecological network of autotrophic, heterotrophic, and mixotrophic organisms, where trophodynamics and biogeochemical interdependencies are determining factors for primary production rates in marine systems.
    
78. Ward et al., 2011. Linking phytoplankton community composition to seasonal changes in f-ratio. (ISME)
    Notes: Described the concept of f-ratio.
    
79. Jeong et al., 2010. Growth, feeding and ecological roles of the mixotrophic and heterotrophic dinoflagellates in marine planktonic food webs. (Ocean Science Journal)
80. Yoo et al., 2010. Feeding by the Newly Described Mixotrophic Dinoflagellate Paragymnodinium shiwhaense: Feeding Mechanism, Prey Species, and Effect of Prey Concentration.
81. Rigosi et al., 2010. State-of-the-art and recent progress in phytoplankton succession modelling. (Environ. Rev)
    Notes: Described terms such as successions, sesonal successions, autogenic factors, allogenic factors.
    
82. Blibert et al., 2010. Modeling of HABs and eutrophication: Status, advances, challenges. (Journal of Marine Systems)
83. Andersson et al., 2010. Pyrosequencing reveals contrasting seasonal dynamics of taxa within Baltic Sea bacterioplankton communities. (ISME)
84. Cheung et al., 2010. Composition and genetic diversity of picoeukaryotes in subtropical coastal waters as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing. (ISME)
    Notes: Cloning-independent sequencing of 18S rDNA.
    
85. Boyce et al., 2010. Global phytoplankton decline over the past century(Nature)
86. Worden et al., 2009. Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas, Science.
88. Bowler et al., 2009. Microbial oceanography in a sea of opportunity. (Nature)
89. Glibert et al., 2009. Grazing by Karenia brevis on Synechococcus enhances its growth rate and may help to sustain blooms. (Aquatic Microbial Ecology)
90. Massana and Pedros-Alio, 2008. Unveiling new microbial eukaryotes in the surface ocean. (Current Opinions in Microbiology)
91. Falkowski et al., 2008. The microbial engines that drive earth's biogenochemical cycles. (Science)
92. Vaulot et al., 2008. The diversity of small eukaryotic phytoplankton (<= 3 um) in marine ecosystems. (FEMS Microbiol Rev)
93. Epstein and Lopez-Garcia, 2008. "Missing" protists: a molecular prospective. (Biodivers Conserv)
94. Burkholder et al., 2008. Mixotrophy, a major mode of nutrition for harmful algal species in eutrophic waters. (Harmful Algae)
95. Falkowski and Oliver, 2007. Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplankton. (Nature Reviews Microbiology)
96. Ives and Carpenter, 2007. Stability and Diversity of Ecosystems. (Science)
97. Roy and Chattopadhyay, 2007. Towards a resolution of bthe paradox of the planktonb: A brief overview of the proposed mechanisms. (Ecological Complexity)
98. Kent et al., 2007. Synchrony in aquatic microbial community dynamics. (ISME)
99. Sala and Knowlton, 2006. Global marine biodiversity trends. (Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.)
100. Boucher et al., 2006. Succession of bacterial community composition over two consecutive years in two aquatic systems: a natural lake and a lake-reservoir. (FEMS)
101. Giovannoni et al., 2005. Genome Streamlining in a Cosmopolitan Oceanic Bacterium. (Science)
     Notes: Sequenced and analyzed a small genome Pelagibacter ubique, the first sequenced genome of the SAR11 clade.
     
102. Gobler et al., 2005. A review of the causes, effects, and potential management of harmful brown tide bloom caused by Aureococcus anophagefferens. (Estuaries)
103. Quigg et al., 2003. The evolutionary inheritance of elementary stoichiometry in marine phytoplankton. (Nature)
104. Scheffer et al., 2003. Why plankton communities have no equilibrium: solutions to the paradox. (Hydrobiologia)
     Notes: Reviewed the "paradox of the plankton" concept.
     
105. Gilg et al., 2003. Cyclic dynamics in a simple vertebrate predator-prey community. (Science)
     Notes: Desribed the cyclic dynamics of small rodents. Examined the hypothesis that cyclic dynamics of population is predation.
     
106. Vaulot et al., 2002. Are autotrophs less diverse than heterotrophs in marine picoplankton? (Trends in Microbiology)
107. Moreira and Lopez-Garcia, 2002. The molecular ecology of microbial eukaryotes unveils a hidden world. (Trends in Microbiology)
108. Downing and Leibold, 2002. Ecosystem consequences of species richness and composition in pond food webs. (Nature)
109. Lopez-Garcia et al., 2001. Unexpected diversity of small eukaryotes in deep-sea antarctic plankton. (Nature)
     Notes: One of the first reports showing the diversity of plankton using 18S rDNA.
     
110. Moon-van der Staay et al., 2001. Oceanic 18S rDNA sequences from picoplankton reveal unsuspected eukaryotic diversity. (Nature)
     Notes: One of the first reports showing the diversity of plankton using 18S rDNA.
     
111. Diez et al., 2001. Study of genetic diversity of eukaryotic picoplankton in different oceanic regions by small-subunit rRNA gene cloning and sequencing. (Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
     Notes: One of the first reports showing the diversity of picoplankton using 18S rDNA.
     
112. Scheffer et al., 2001. Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems. (Nature)
113. Abraham et al., 2000. Importance of stirring in the development of an iron-fertilized phytoplankton bloom. (Nature)
114. Gunderson, 2000. ECOLOGICAL RESILIENCE, in theory and application. (Annual Review Ecol. Syst.)
115. Agawin et al., 2000. Nutrient and temperature control of the contribution of picoplankton to phytoplankton biomass and production. (Limnol. Oceanogr.)
116. Raven, 1998. The twelfth Tansley Lecture. Small is beautiful: the picophytoplancton. (Functional Ecology)
117. Peterson et al., 1998. Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale. (Ecosystems)
118. Field et al., 1998. Primary produciton of the biospere: integrating terrestrial and oceanic components. (Science)
     Notes: Photosynthesis is a critical process that allows life on Earth, and interestingly, half the global primary production occurs in the sea, mostly by planktonic microorganisms that account for only 0.2% of global primary producer biomass.
     
119. Pace, 1997. A Molecular View of Microbial Diversity and the Biosphere. (Science)
120. Verity and Smetacek, 1996. Organism life cycles, predation, and the structure of marine pelagic ecosystems. (Marine Ecology Progress Series)
     Notes: Proposed that "a major impediment to improved conceptual models is the historic focus on resource-dnven or 'bottom-up' factors as being the dominant variables structuring planktonic ecosystems". Evidence is presented that predation or 'top-down' trophic effects may be equally important in specifying the occurrence of particular taxa, the biomass within adjacent trophic levels, and the morphology of dominant herbivores and carnivores.
     
121. Lolling and Meffe, 1995. Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management. (Conservation Biology)
122. DeLong et al., 1994. High abundance of Archaea in antartic marine picoplankton. (Nature)
123. Giovannoni et al., 1990. Genetic diversity in Sagasso sea bacterioplankton. (Nature)
124. Menge et al., 1976. Species Diversity Gradients: Synthesis of the Roles of Predation, Competition, and Temporal Heterogeneity. (The American Naturalist)
125. Holling, 1973. Resilience and stability of ecological systems. (Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics)

1. Kausrud et al., 2008. Linking climate change to lemming cycles. (Nature)
   Notes: Examined the cause of cyclic population change.
   
2. Ims and Fuglei, 2005. Trophic Interaction Cycles in Tundra Ecosystems and the Impact of Climate Change. (BioScience)
3. Bjornstad and Grenfell, 2001. Noisy clockwork: Time series analysis of population fluctuations in animals. (Science)
   Notes: Described high-frequency oscillation and low-frequency oscillation.
   
4. Turchin and Hanski, 2001. Contrasting alternative hypotheses about rodent cycles by translating them into parameterized models. (Ecology Letters)
5. Kendall et al., 1999. Why do populations cycle? A synthesis of statistical and mechanistic modeling approaches. (Ecology)
   Notes: This articles described population cycles and the causes of the cycles. Adult competition for food is an important factor.