E. Boss

Emergent patterns of patchiness reflect decoupling between ocean physics and biology

The paper analyzes global ocean data to show that physical and biological patchiness are decoupled, using variance slope to quantify spatial patterns.

Ubiquity of inverted 'gelatinous' ecosystem pyramids in the global ocean

The paper quantifies plankton community structure globally, revealing inverted biomass pyramids dominated by gelatinous organisms and predicting future shifts in oceanic carbon cycles.

Evidence for kilometer-scale biophysical features at the Gulf Stream front

This study investigates how submesoscale frontal dynamics at the Gulf Stream front affect biological communities and productivity, finding two key processes linked to meander phases that influence phytoplankton biomass and composition.

Global observation of plankton communities from space

The paper uses satellite data and machine learning to predict global plankton community distributions with 67% accuracy, outperforming temperature and chlorophyll a alone.

Characterizing phytoplankton communities in the absence of resource-based competition

The paper develops an ecosystem model that sustains phytoplankton diversity across size classes under varying nutrient concentrations, challenging previous assumptions about resource-based competitive exclusion.

Plankton Planet: 'seatizen' oceanography to assess open ocean life at the planetary scale

Plankton Planet uses citizen science to collect global plankton biodiversity data via DNA barcodes, achieving comparable quality to Tara Oceans with a scalable, open-access approach.