Katherina Petrou

Mar 28, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alicia Cook |Enrico L. Rezende |Departamento de Ecología |Katherina Petrou

INTRODUCTION The use of critical endpoints or thresholds as thermal tolerance metrics has gained considerable momentum over the last two decades. For example, Deutsch et al. (2008) showed that tropical animals lived at temperatures closer to their physiological limits and were, therefore, more vulnerable to global warming. These authors originally used intrinsic rates of increase to estimate the temperature at which fitness dropped to zero and populations were no longer sustainable.

Jun 9, 2023 | mdpi.com | Katherina Petrou

There are multiple ways in which phytoplankton and bacteria interact, starting from the fundamental symbiotic associations of direct attachment, through intimate interactions within the phytoplankton phycosphere, to random associations within the water column via the exudation and cycling of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and other chemical compounds.

May 1, 2023 | mdpi.com | Katherina Petrou

Open AccessEditorialby School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, AustraliaMicroorganisms 2023, 11(5), 1188; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11051188 (registering DOI)Received: 31 March 2023/Accepted: 28 April 2023/Published: 1 May 2023(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phytoplankton-Bacteria Interactions)Phytoplankton and bacteria regulate many essential functions in aquatic ecosystems.