Because of the taxonomic breadth spanned by marine phytoplankton, and the diversity of roles they fill in ocean ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles, we stress the necessity of treating taxa or functional groups individually.
Alongside the wide taxonomic breadth they span, marine phytoplankton differ in several key traits that should affect their evolutionary responses to global change.
This indicates that our sample contains a breadth of respondents spanning recently-diagnosed and long-term.
Participants in this research were recruited from the students and faculty of a large urban university with more than 25,000 undergraduates (1800 biology majors and 5000 students enrolled in biology courses) and ∼40 faculty members in biology who are active in research, as well as in teaching, and represent a wide breadth of subdisciplines spanning from the molecular to the ecological scale.
A floor-to-ceiling bookcase offers every Graham Greene book you can think off, plus a selection of boardgames and DVDs spanning the breadth of tastes from The Princess Diaries to The Last King of Scotland.
Guantánamo Diary is a "brutally original" memoir, said the prize jury on Monday, as they revealed a longlist described as spanning "the breadth of non-fiction writing, from literary biography and history to journalism and travel writing".
Here, amid rows of burial mounds spanning the breadth of some 15 football fields, he watched two goose-stepping soldiers lay a wreath to the 490,000 people interred here who perished during the Nazis' 900-day siege of Leningrad, as the city was called, from 1941 to 1944.
True, you age and die, but there are always bubbles (universes) spanning the breadth of eternity.
No wonder the authors argue: "the sheer breadth of the problem, spanning key industries in the economy, as well as its profound impact on workers and their communities, entailing significant economic hardship, demands urgent attention".
The data provide DNA content values for 12 of the 19 recognized orders of brown algae spanning the breadth of the class.
