@article{Pomeroy_2004, title={Building bridges across subdisciplines in marine ecology}, volume={68}, url={https://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/375}, DOI={10.3989/scimar.2004.68s15}, abstractNote={Ecology has evolved many subdisciplines whose members do not necessarily communicate regularly through attending the same meetings or reading and publishing in the same journals. As a result, explanations of ecological processes are often limited to a single factor, process, or group of organisms, and this limited approach may fail to provide the best understanding of how communities and ecosystems are assembled and function. Specifically, there is a need to bring together information on the interplay of top-down and bottom-up influences on complete communities consisting of both macroorganisms and microorganisms. A number of examples from the recent literature illustrate the problems encountered in achieving this goal. These include declining fish populations, estuarine eutrophication, the complex origin of a toxic dinoflagellate bloom, and the interactions of microorganisms and macrooorganisms in marine planktonic food webs.}, number={S1}, journal={Scientia Marina}, author={Pomeroy, Lawrence R.}, year={2004}, month={Apr.}, pages={5–12} }