Journal: Communications Biology

Article Title: Warming alters plankton body-size distributions in a large field experiment

doi: 10.1038/s42003-024-07380-2

Figure Lengend Snippet: On the left, schematic representation of the mesocosms heated with a gradient of temperatures (from +1 to + 8 °C above ambient). Zooplankton samples were collected with a plankton net in Spring and Autumn 2019 and analysed with a FlowCam (High- throughput flow cytometry coupled with machine learning), if smaller than 1 mm, and with a microscope if bigger than 1 mm, to obtain body measurements and abundance data.

Article Snippet: The first two zooplankton size classes (75–250 μm, 250–1000 μm) were analysed using a Bench Top FlowCAM ® 8000 (Fluid Imaging Technologies, Inc. Maine, USA) with particle analysis software (VisualSpreadsheet © , version 4).

Techniques: High Throughput Screening Assay, Flow Cytometry, Microscopy