Emergent Biogeography of Microbial Communities in a Model Ocean Export

@article{citeulike:1202726, abstract = {A marine ecosystem model seeded with many phytoplankton types, whose physiological traits were randomly assigned from ranges defined by field and laboratory data, generated an emergent community structure and biogeography consistent with observed global phytoplankton distributions. The modeled organisms included types analogous to the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Their emergent global distributions and physiological properties simultaneously correspond to observations. This flexible representation of community structure can be used to explore relations between ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change. 10.1126/science.1138544}, address = {Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 54-1514 MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. mick@mit.edu}, author = {Follows, Michael J. and Dutkiewicz, Stephanie and Grant, Scott and Chisholm, Sallie W.}, citeulike-article-id = {1202726}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1138544}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/315/5820/1843}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17395828}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17395828}, day = {30}, doi = {10.1126/science.1138544}, issn = {1095-9203}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {41061108, biogegraphy, communites, ecosystem, microbial, models, ocean}, month = {March}, number = {5820}, pages = {1843--1846}, posted-at = {2007-05-09 21:51:25}, priority = {2}, title = {Emergent Biogeography of Microbial Communities in a Model Ocean}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1138544}, volume = {315}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1202726 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1202726 N2 - A marine ecosystem model seeded with many phytoplankton types, whose physiological traits were randomly assigned from ranges defined by field and laboratory data, generated an emergent community structure and biogeography consistent with observed global phytoplankton distributions. The modeled organisms included types analogous to the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus. Their emergent global distributions and physiological properties simultaneously correspond to observations. This flexible representation of community structure can be used to explore relations between ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, and climate change. 10.1126/science.1138544 IS - 5820 JF - Science SN - 1095-9203 AD - Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 54-1514 MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. mick@mit.edu EP - 1846 TI - Emergent Biogeography of Microbial Communities in a Model Ocean VL - 315 SP - 1843 KW - 41061108 KW - biogegraphy KW - communites KW - ecosystem KW - microbial KW - models KW - ocean AU - Follows, Michael AU - Dutkiewicz, Stephanie AU - Grant, Scott AU - Chisholm, Sallie PY - 2007/03/30/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1138544 ER -