• Bacterial community composition responds to changes in copepod abundance and alters ecosystem function in an Arctic mesocosm study 

      Tsagaraki, Tatiana Margo; Pree, Bernadette; Leiknes, Øystein; Larsen, Aud; Bratbak, Gunnar; Øvreås, Lise; Egge, Jorun Karin; Spanek, Roman; Paulsen, Maria Lund; Olsen, Yngvar; Vadstein, Olav; Thingstad, T. Frede (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Combining a minimum food web model with Arctic microbial community dynamics, we have suggested that top-down control by copepods can affect the food web down to bacterial consumption of organic carbon. Pursuing this ...
    • Competition–defense trade-offs in the microbial world 

      Thingstad, T. Frede (Journal article, 2022)
    • Effects of migrating mesopelagic fishes on the biological carbon pump 

      Aksnes, Dag Lorents; Løtvedt, Anita Stene; Lindemann, Christian; Calleja, Maria Ll.; Morán, Xosé Anxelu G.; Kaartvedt, Stein; Thingstad, T. Frede (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Mesopelagic fishes and invertebrates contribute to the biological carbon pump (BCP) through direct and indirect effects on the gravitational, diffusive, and migrant (active) fluxes. Here, we analyzed the effect of these ...
    • Heterotrophic nanoflagellate grazing facilitates subarctic Atlantic spring bloom development 

      Paulsen, Maria Lund; Riisgård, Karen; St. John, Mike; Thingstad, T. Frede; Nielsen, Torkel Gissel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      The subarctic Atlantic phytoplankton spring bloom is one of the largest biological features of the ocean; however, processes initiating the bloom are still not well understood. We hypothesize that the microbial grazing ...
    • Linking bacterial community structure to advection and environmental impact along a coast-fjord gradient of the Sognefjord, western Norway 

      Storesund, Julia Endresen; Sandaa, Ruth-Anne; Thingstad, T. Frede; Asplin, Lars; Albretsen, Jon; Erga, Svein Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-12)
      Here we present novel data on bacterial assemblages along a coast-fjord gradient in the Sognefjord, the deepest (1308 m) and longest (205 km) ice-free fjord in the world. Data were collected on two cruises, one in November ...
    • Mechanisms Generating Dichotomies in the Life Strategies of Heterotrophic Marine Prokaryotes 

      Thingstad, T. Frede; Øvreås, Lise; Vadstein, Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Understanding the mechanisms that generate and maintain diversity in marine prokaryotic communities is one of the main challenges for contemporary marine microbiology. We here review how observational, experimental, and ...
    • Reproducing the virus-to-copepod link in Arctic mesocosms using host fitness optimization. 

      Thingstad, T. Frede; Larsen, Aud; Bratbak, Gunnar; Våge, Selina; Egge, Jorun Karin; Sandaa, Ruth-Anne; Nejstgaard, Jens Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      By shunting material out of the predatory pathway toward detritus and dissolved material, viruses are believed to have an important impact on biogeochemical functions of the pelagic microbial food web. To include viruses ...
    • Simple models combining competition, defence and resource availability have broad implications in pelagic microbial food webs 

      Våge, Selina; Bratbak, Gunnar; Egge, Jorun Karin; Heldal, Mikal; Larsen, Aud; Norland, Svein; Paulsen, Maria Lund; Pree, Bernadette; Sandaa, Ruth-Anne; Skjoldal, Evy Foss; Tsagaraki, Tatiana Margo; Øvreås, Lise; Thingstad, T. Frede (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09)
      In food webs, interactions between competition and defence control the partitioning of limiting resources. As a result, simple models of these interactions contain links between biogeochemistry, diversity, food web structure ...
    • Temperate infection in a virus–host system previously known for virulent dynamics 

      Knowles, Ben; Bonachela, Juan A.; Behrenfeld, Michael J.; Bondoc, Karen G.; Cael, B.B.; Carlson, Craig; Cieslik, Nick; Diaz, Ben; Fuchs, Heidi L.; Graff, Jason; Grasis, Juris; Halsey, Kimberly; Haramaty, Liti; Johns, Christopher T.; Natale, Frank; Nissimov, Jozef I.; Schieler, Brittany; Thamatrakoln, Kimberlee; Thingstad, T. Frede; Våge, Selina; Watkins, Cliff; Westberry, Toby K.; Bidle, Kay D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The blooming cosmopolitan coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi and its viruses (EhVs) are a model for density-dependent virulent dynamics. EhVs commonly exhibit rapid viral reproduction and drive host death in high-density ...