Benefits, costs and taxonomic distribution of marine phytoplankton body size

Phytoplankton cell or colony sizes range from 105 µm3) in lake phytoplankton and the absence of large (>103 µm3) green algae in marine plankton. Overall, size is one of the most important traits for the performance of phytoplankton, but it is overly simplistic to equate small size with metabolic advantages

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