id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
aiol-7194	D'Alelio, Domenico	Biological complexity behind plankton system functioning: Synthesis and perspectives from a marine Long Term Ecological Research	2017	12	.pdf	application/pdf	8122	544	52	Among unicellular plankton, diatoms show highly organized life cycles, with a biological clock that regulates the emergence of sex and periodical recruitment of sexual generations (Montresor et al., 2016). For instance: plankton individual-sizes span three orders of magnitude (Boyce et al., 2015); morpho- logical characteristics, like surface-to-volume ratio, are extremely variable even within a single aquatic system (Morabito et al., 2007); coloniality is wide-spread among distantly related phyla (e.g., from diatoms to pelagic tu- nicates; Bone and others, 1998; Seckbach and Kociolek, 2011); mixotrophy, or the contemporary presence of het- erotrophic and autotrophic metabolism within the same organism, is common in planktonic protists (Stoecker et al., 2017); several intersecting trophic interactions may establish among plankters (D’Alelio et al., 2016b); and, ultimately, the overall diversity hardly fits into few func- tional groups (Hofmann, 2010;	cache/aiol-7194.pdf	txt/aiol-7194.txt