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[CAT] Per què la turbulència és tan important per al plàncton? El plàncton es troba a la base de la xarxa tròfica marina. Des d’un punt de vista hidrodinàmic es pot definir com el conjunt d’organismes que viuen en suspensió en una massa d’aigua amb una capacitat limitada per regular la seva posició. Per tant, el plàncton es desplaça seguint tot tipus de moviments de l’aigua, com ara les corrents o les marees, que esdevenen propietats ambientals inherents a la vida planctònica. La mida d’aquests organismes abasta varis ordres de magnitud, des d’unes dècimes de micròmetres fins a metres, encara que la majoria són microscòpics. Poden alimentar-se d’altres organismes, i llavors parlem de fagòtrofs, o prendre substàncies dissoltes del medi, i llavors ho fem d’osmòtrofs. El plàncton osmotròfic domina el flux de carboni a l’ecosistema pelàgic, a través de la fixació de CO2 (la producció primària) i la remineralització de matèria orgànica (respiració). De fet, la majoria de la producció primària en els sistemes aquàtics, que representa aproximadament la meitat de la producció primària global (Field et al. 1998), és duta a terme pel plàncton osmòtrofic a través de la fotosíntesi. […]
[EN] Why is turbulence so important for plankton? Plankton is at the base of the marine trophic web. It can be defined from a hydrodynamic point of view, as the collection of organisms that live suspended in a body of water with a limited ability to regulate its position. Therefore plankton drifts with currents, tides and other water motions, which become environmental properties inherent to planktonic life. Planktonic organisms range several orders of magnitude in size, from tenths of microns to meters, although most are microscopic. They can feed on other particles (phagotrophs) or acquire dissolved substances (osmotrophs), incorporating them into particulate form. Osmotrophic plankton dominates the flux of carbon within the pelagic ecosystem, through CO2 fixation (primary production) and re-mineralization (respiration). In fact, the majority of primary production in aquatic systems, which accounts for roughly half of the global primary production (Field et al. 1998), is performed by osmotrophic plankton through photosynthesis. Parallely, bacterioplankton is responsible for the majority of organic carbon respired in the ocean (e.g. Rivkin and Legendre 2001). […]
Memoria de tesis doctoral presentada por Òscar Guadayol Roig para optar al grado de Doctor por la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), realizada bajo la dirección de la Dra. Celia Marrasé Peña y del Dr. Francesc Peters del Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC).-- 146 pages
This thesis has been mainly supported by the EU project NTAP (EVK3-CT-2000-00022) and by the Spanish projects VARITEC (REN2003-08071-C02-01/MAR) and TURFI (REN2002-01591/MAR). Òscar Guadayol had a Spanish I3P fellowship from the CSIC
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