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Is chain length in phytoplankton regulated to evade predation?
2015
Journal of Plankton Research
Many dominating phytoplankton form chains of attached cells. Chain length strongly influences how the organism interacts with its environment, but the factors driving the evolution of chain formation and chain length plasticity are not entirely clear. We tested the hypothesis that chain formation in diatoms is a grazer avoidance strategy. We modelled the effect of chain length plasticity on grazing mortality in Skeletonema marinoi over a temperate year, based on empirical data on grazer
doi:10.1093/plankt/fbv076
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