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  • Programme area:1) Biodiversity in a Changing World
March 2025
Ecology. - 106(2025)3, Art. e70043

Cell size explains shift in phytoplankton community structure following storm-induced changes in light and nutrients

Alexis L. N. Guislain; Jens C. Nejstgaard; Jan Köhler; Erik Sperfeld; Ute Mischke; Birger Skjelbred; Hans-Peter Grossart; Anne Lyche Solheim; Mark O. Gessner; Stella A. Berger

 In a LakeLab experiment we investigated whether cell size explains shifts in phytoplankton communities following changes in nutrient and light conditions from storm-induced nutrients and cDOM loadings. Cell size explained phytoplankton community structure when light availability declined following cDOM addition and cell-size distribution gradually shifted toward large-celled species.

February 2025
Current Biology. - 35(2025)6, 1364-1372.e2

New fish migrations into the Panama Canal increase likelihood of interoceanic invasions in the Americas

Gustavo A. Castellanos-Galindo; Diana M.T. Sharpe; D. Ross Robertson; Victor Bravo; Jonathan M. Jeschke; Mark E. Torchin

The authors have compared the fish communities of Lake Gatun in the Panama Canal before and after the canal’s expansion in 2016: Marine fish species  now make up 76 percent of the total biomass of the fish population and are primarily large predatory fishes. The lake’s food web is changing and local fisheries are impacted. There is also an increased risk of fishes colonizing the opposite ocean.