ECOTIP D3.2 Microbial Traits

• Main Author: Visser, Andre
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: plankton; microbes; traits; Arctic; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7240982

This deliverable presents the conclusions and recommendation from a workshop on Microbial Traits held at DTU in September 2021. The terms of reference were to ensure that the unicellular modelling component in the NUM model (D3.1) covered sufficient detail to ensure it fulfills the requirements of ECOTIP. This work is a direct output from Task 3.1 Generalized trait-based model of plankton and it supports the scientific basis of the model framework. The general recommendations are that diazotrophy, while important on a global scale, is not of immediate importance for the diversity and ecology of the subpolar North Atlantic. Of more direct importance are the microbial traits that lend directly to the coagulation and sinking of organic carbon, addressing one of the most immediate unresolved issues of the biological carbon pump; how export flux is related to the community structure of primary producers and their consumers in the surface ocean.