Publications

Lüskow, F., Bahl, A. A., Décima, M., Steinberg, D. K., & Pakhomov, E. A. (2024). Reproductive biology, elemental composition and diel vertical migration of the cosmopolitan warm-temperate pelagic tunicate Soestia zonaria. Journal of Plankton Research, 46(1), 72–85. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbad053
Stukel, M. R., Décima, M., Kelly, T. B., Landry, M. R., Nodder, S. D., Ohman, M. D., Selph, K. E., & Yingling, N. (2024). Relationships Between Plankton Size Spectra, Net Primary Production, and the Biological Carbon Pump. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(4), e2023GB007994. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007994
Décima, M., Stukel, M. R., Nodder, S. D., Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, A., Selph, K. E., Dos Santos, A. L., Safi, K., Kelly, T. B., Deans, F., Morales, S. E., Baltar, F., Latasa, M., Gorbunov, M. Y., & Pinkerton, M. (2023). Salp blooms drive strong increases in passive carbon export in the Southern Ocean. Nature Communications, 14(1), 425. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35204-6
Fender, C. K., Décima, M., Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, A., Selph, K. E., Yingling, N., & Stukel, M. R. (2023). Prey size spectra and predator to prey size ratios of southern ocean salps. Marine Biology, 170(4), 40. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04187-3
Escobar‐Flores, P. C., Décima, M., O’Driscoll, R. L., Ladroit, Y., & Roberts, J. (2022). Multiple sampling methods to develop indices of mid‐trophic levels abundance in open ocean ecosystems. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, lom3.10522. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10522
Stukel, M. R., Décima, M., & Landry, M. R. (2022). Quantifying biological carbon pump pathways with a data-constrained mechanistic model ensemble approach. Biogeosciences, 19(15), 3595–3624. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3595-2022
Décima, M. (2022). Zooplankton trophic structure and ecosystem productivity. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 692, 23–42. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14077
Sabadel, A., Décima, M., McComb, K., Meyers, M., Barr, N., Gall, M., Safi, K., & Law, C. (2022). Amino acid nitrogen stable isotopes as biomarkers of coastal phytoplankton assemblages and food web interactions. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 690, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14046
Chiswell, S. M., Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, A., Gall, M., Safi, K., Strzepek, R., Décima, M. R., & Nodder, S. D. (2022). Seasonal cycles of phytoplankton and net primary production from Biogeochemical Argo float data in the south-west Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 187, 103834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103834
Meyers, M., Décima, M., Law, C. S., Gall, M., Barr, N., Miller, M. R., Safi, K., Robinson, K., Sabadel, A., Wing, S., & Hoffmann, L. (2022). No evidence of altered relationship between diet and consumer fatty acid composition in a natural plankton community under combined climate drivers. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 551, 151734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2022.151734
Cawley, G. F., Décima, M., Mast, A., & Prairie, J. C. (2021). The effect of phytoplankton properties on the ingestion of marine snow by Calanus pacificus. Journal of Plankton Research, 43(6), 957–973. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbab074
Stukel, M. R., Décima, M., Selph, K. E., & Gutierrez-Rodriguez, A. (2021). Size-specific grazing and competitive interactions between large salps and protistan grazers. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11770
Lüskow, F., Pakhomov, E. A., Stukel, M. R., & Décima, M. (2020). Biology of Salpa thompsoni at the Chatham Rise, New Zealand: demography, growth, and diel vertical migration. Marine Biology, 167(12), 175. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-020-03775-x
Landry, M. R., Stukel, M. R., & Décima, M. (2020). Food-web fluxes support high rates of mesozooplankton respiration and production in the equatorial Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 652, 15–32. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13479
Pinkerton, M. H., Décima, M., Kitchener, J. A., Takahashi, K. T., Robinson, K. V., Stewart, R., & Hosie, G. W. (2020). Zooplankton in the Southern Ocean from the continuous plankton recorder: Distributions and long-term change. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 162, 103303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103303
Decima, M., & Landry, M. R. (2020). Resilience of plankton trophic structure to an eddy-stimulated diatom bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 643, 33–48. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13333
Zeldis, J. R., & Décima, M. (2020). Mesozooplankton connect the microbial food web to higher trophic levels and vertical export in the New Zealand Subtropical Convergence Zone. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 155, 103146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103146
Décima, M., Stukel, M. R., Lopez-Lopez, L., & Landry, M. R. (2019). The unique ecological role of pyrosomes in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. Limnology and Oceanography, 64(2), 728–743. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11071
O’Callaghan, J., Stevens, C., Roughan, M., Cornelisen, C., Sutton, P., Garrett, S., Giorli, G., Smith, R. O., Currie, K. I., Suanda, S. H., Williams, M., Bowen, M., Fernandez, D., Vennell, R., Knight, B. R., Barter, P., McComb, P., Oliver, M., Livingston, M., … Macdonald, H. (2019). Developing an integrated ocean observing system for New Zealand. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6(143). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00143
Stukel, M. R., Décima, M., Landry, M. R., & Selph, K. E. (2018). Nitrogen and Isotope Flows Through the Costa Rica Dome Upwelling Ecosystem: The Crucial Mesozooplankton Role in Export Flux. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(12), 1815–1832. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gb005968
Stukel, M. R., Décima, M., & Kelly, T. B. (2018). A new approach for incorporating 15N isotopic data into linear inverse ecosystem models with Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling. PLOS ONE, 13(6), e0199123. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199123
Valencia, B., Décima, M., & Landry, M. R. (2018). Environmental Effects on Mesozooplankton Size Structure and Export Flux at Station ALOHA, North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(2), 289–305. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017gb005785
Décima, M., Landry, M. R., Bradley, C. J., & Fogel, M. L. (2017). Alanine delta(15) N trophic fractionation in heterotrophic protists. Limnology and Oceanography, 62(5), 2308–2322. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10567
Landry, M. R., & Décima, M. R. (2017). Protistan microzooplankton and the trophic position of tuna: quantifying the trophic link between micro- and mesozooplankton in marine foodwebs. Ices Journal of Marine Science, 74(7), 1885–1892. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx006
Lopez-Lopez, L., Preciado, I., Muñoz, I., Décima, M., Molinero, J. C., & Tel, E. (2017). Does upwelling intensity influence feeding habits and trophic position of planktivorous fish? Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 122, 29–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2017.01.017
Valencia, B., Landry, M. R., Décima, M., & Hannides, C. C. S. (2016). Environmental drivers of mesozooplankton biomass variability in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 121(12), 3131–3143. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016jg003544
Décima, M., Landry, M. R., Stukel, M. R., Lopez-Lopez, L., & Krause, J. W. (2016). Mesozooplankton biomass and grazing in the Costa Rica Dome: amplifying variability through the plankton food web. Journal of Plankton Research, 38(2), 317–330. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbv091
Landry, M. R., Selph, K. E., Décima, M., Gutierrez-Rodriguez, A., Stukel, M. R., Taylor, A. G., & Pasulka, A. L. (2016). Phytoplankton production and grazing balances in the Costa Rica Dome. Journal of Plankton Research, 38(2), 366–379. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbv089
Stukel, M. R., Benitez-Nelson, C. R., Décima, M., Taylor, A. G., Buchwald, C., & Landry, M. R. (2016). The biological pump in the Costa Rica Dome: an open-ocean upwelling system with high new production and low export. Journal of Plankton Research, 38(2), 348–365. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbv097
Stukel, M. R., Kahru, M., Benitez-Nelson, C. R., Décima, M., Goericke, R., Landry, M. R., & Ohman, M. D. (2015). Using Lagrangian-based process studies to test satellite algorithms of vertical carbon flux in the eastern North Pacific Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 120(11), 7208–7222. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015jc011264
Gutierrez-Rodriguez, A., Décima, M., Popp, B. N., & Landry, M. R. (2014). Isotopic invisibility of protozoan trophic steps in marine food webs. Limnology and Oceanography, 59(5), 1590–1598. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2014.59.5.1590
Feinberg, L. R., Shaw, C. T., Peterson, W. T., Décima, M., Okazaki, Y., & Ju, S. J. (2013). Euphausia pacifica brood sizes: a North Pacific synthesis. Journal of Plankton Research, 35(6), 1192–1206. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbt064
Stukel, M. R., Décima, M., Selph, K. E., Taniguchi, D. A. A., & Landry, M. R. (2013). The role of Synechococcus in vertical flux in the Costa Rica upwelling dome. Progress in Oceanography, 112, 49–59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2013.04.003
Décima, M., Landry, M. R., & Popp, B. N. (2013). Environmental perturbation effects on baseline delta N-15 values and zooplankton trophic flexibility in the southern California Current Ecosystem. Limnology and Oceanography, 58(2), 624–634. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2013.58.2.0624
Décima, M., Landry, M. R., & Rykaczewski, R. R. (2011). Broad scale patterns in mesozooplankton biomass and grazing in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58(3–4), 387–399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.08.006
Landry, M. R., Selph, K. E., Taylor, A. G., Décima, M., Balch, W. M., & Bidigare, R. R. (2011). Phytoplankton growth, grazing and production balances in the HNLC equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 58(3–4), 524–535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.08.011
Décima, M., Ohman, M. D., & De Robertis, A. (2010). Body size dependence of euphausiid spatial patchiness. Limnology and Oceanography, 55(2), 777–788. https://doi.org/10.4319/lo.2009.55.2.0777
Landry, M. R., Décima, M., Simmons, M. P., Hannides, C. C. S., & Daniels, E. (2008). Mesozooplankton biomass and grazing responses to Cyclone Opal, a subtropical mesoscale eddy. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 55(10–13), 1378–1388. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.01.005