Warming oceans will alter not only how much phytoplankton grow, but what they are made of and how they function within marine food webs. Now a mechanistic model shows how environmental change reshapes cellular composition, offering a path towards more physiologically grounded marine ecosystem projections.
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Martiny, A.C. Biochemical future of marine ecosystems.
Nat. Clim. Chang. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02590-4
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