Publications by authors named "Brian P Palenik"
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- The production and characteristics of sea spray aerosol (SSA) particles are influenced by seawater chemistry, which is affected by various biological, physical, and chemical processes.
- Despite previous research, connecting ocean biology directly to SSA properties remains challenging due to interference from background aerosol concentrations.
- A new laboratory method was developed to simulate SSA creation using real seawater and conditions, revealing that factors like phytoplankton and bacteria significantly alter SSA size and chemical properties, paving the way for better understanding of ocean biology's role in SSA behavior and climate impact.
Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) can account for a significant portion of total nitrogen in some aquatic environments, and many species of phytoplankton are able to scavenge nitrogen from this pool especially when inorganic nitrogen is limiting. Emiliania huxleyi (Lohmann) H. W.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The picocyanobacterial genus Synechococcus occurs over wide oceanic expanses, having colonized most available niches in the photic zone. Large scale distribution patterns of the different Synechococcus clades (based on 16S rRNA gene markers) suggest the occurrence of two major lifestyles ('opportunists'/'specialists'), corresponding to two distinct broad habitats ('coastal'/'open ocean'). Yet, the genetic basis of niche partitioning is still poorly understood in this ecologically important group.
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