[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2002.38 - 05 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2002.38#8068 23-Sep-2002 [ Your Message ] Macroecological Patterns Of Phytoplankton In The Atlantic Ocean, Nature Excerpts: Many issues in biological oceanography are regional or global in scope; however, there are not many data sets of extensive areal coverage for marine plankton. (...) A more recent approach termed macroecology characterizes phenomena emerging from large numbers of biological units by emphasizing the shapes and boundaries of statistical distributions, because these reflect the constraints on variation. (...) These systematic patterns in the different size groups lead to phytoplankton communities that conform to an apparently universal relationship between population density and organism size. Macroecological Patterns Of Phytoplankton In The Northwestern North Atlantic Ocean, W. K. W. LI, Nature 419, 154 - 157 (2002); doi:10.1038/nature00994 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=8068