Cellular abundances of bacterioplankton and eukaryotic picoplankton measured by flow cytometry in water samples collected on NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown during the West Coast Ocean Acidification Cruise led by the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in the northern California current ecosystem from 2016-05-24 to 2016-06-16 (NCEI Accession 0265154)
Changes in ocean conditions such as chemical and thermal shifts are habitat pressures on marine organisms. As the basis of the marine food web, microorganisms such as bacteria and phytoplankton are responsible for important biogeochemical processes, such as nutrient cycling, and the primary production. They are also …