Individual Cell Based Traits Obtained by Scanning Flow-Cytometry Show Selection by Biotic and Abiotic Environmental Factors during a Phytoplankton Spring Bloom

• Francesco Pomati ,

  * E-mail: francesco.pomati@eawag.ch

  Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland, ETH-Zürich, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Nathan J. B. Kraft,

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

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• Thomas Posch,

  Affiliation Limnological Station, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, Kilchberg, Switzerland

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• Bettina Eugster,

  Affiliation Limnological Station, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, Kilchberg, Switzerland

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• Jukka Jokela,

  Affiliation ETH-Zürich, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), Department of Environmental Systems Science, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Bas W. Ibelings

  Affiliations Department of Aquatic Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag), Dübendorf, Switzerland, Université de Genève, Institut F.-A. Forel, Versoix, Switzerland

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