Beyond the bottle: exposing the identity-rate gap in microzooplankton ecology
Albert Calbet · 2026
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Description
Albert Calbet argues that plankton ecology knows what grazers are better than what they do in work dated two thousand twenty-six. Tiny zooplankton eat much of the sea's plant growth, and a classic dilution method made that grazing open to measure. Four decades on, the field's tools have swung toward naming species.
Cameras, gene barcodes, and learning tools now resolve identity and spread in fine detail. Rates of eating, growth, prey choice, and death for named grazers lag far behind, which opens an identity-rate gap. Calbet urges that classic bottle tests stay, but gain tags for identity and storage effects. Layered data sets should split bulk rates from prey-level rates so models can use both.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Albert Calbet |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 63 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |