Publications


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
Swalethorp, R., Landry, M. R., Semmens, B. X., Ohman, M. D., Aluwihare, L., Chargualaf, D., & Thompson, A. R. (2023). Anchovy boom and bust linked to trophic shifts in larval diet. Nature Communications, 14(1), 7412. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42966-0
Matthews, S. A., & Ohman, M. D. (2023). A space‐for‐time framework for forecasting the effects of ocean stratification on zooplankton vertical habitat use and trait composition. Limnology and Oceanography, lno.12450. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12450
Wolfe, W. H., Martz, T. R., Dickson, A. G., Goericke, R., & Ohman, M. D. (2023). A 37-year record of ocean acidification in the Southern California current. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 406. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01065-0
Mangolte, I., Lévy, M., Haëck, C., & Ohman, M. D. (2023). Sub-frontal niches of plankton communities driven by transport and trophic interactions at ocean fronts. Biogeosciences, 20(15), 3273–3299. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-3273-2023
Kahru, M., Lee, Z., & Ohman, M. D. (2023). Multidecadal changes in ocean transparency: Decrease in a coastal upwelling region and increase offshore. Limnology and Oceanography, lno.12365. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12365
Stukel, M. R., Irving, J. P., Kelly, T. B., Ohman, M. D., Fender, C. K., & Yingling, N. (2023). Carbon sequestration by multiple biological pump pathways in a coastal upwelling biome. Nature Communications, 14(1), 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37771-8
Kiko, R., Picheral, M., Antoine, D., Babin, M., Berline, L., Biard, T., Boss, E., Brandt, P., Carlotti, F., Christiansen, S., Coppola, L., de la Cruz, L., Diamond-Riquier, E., Durrieu de Madron, X., Elineau, A., Gorsky, G., Guidi, L., Hauss, H., Irisson, J.-O., … Stemmann, L. (2022). A global marine particle size distribution dataset obtained with the Underwater Vision Profiler 5. Earth System Science Data, 14(9), 4315–4337. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4315-2022
Ducklow, H., Cimino, M., Dunton, K. H., Fraser, W. R., Hopcroft, R. R., Ji, R., Miller, A. J., Ohman, M. D., & Sosik, H. M. (2022). Marine Pelagic Ecosystem Responses to Climate Variability and Change. BioScience, 72(9), 827–850. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac050
Orenstein, E. C., Ayata, S., Maps, F., Becker, É. C., Benedetti, F., Biard, T., de Garidel‐Thoron, T., Ellen, J. S., Ferrario, F., Giering, S. L. C., Guy‐Haim, T., Hoebeke, L., Iversen, M. H., Kiørboe, T., Lalonde, J., Lana, A., Laviale, M., Lombard, F., Lorimer, T., … Irisson, J. (2022). Machine learning techniques to characterize functional traits of plankton from image data. Limnology and Oceanography, lno.12101. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12101
Chavarry, J. M., Law, K. L., Barton, A. D., Bowlin, N. M., Ohman, M. D., & Choy, C. A. (2022). Relative exposure to microplastics and prey for a pelagic forage fish. Environmental Research Letters, 17(6). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac7060
Pinti, J., Visser, A. W., Serra-Pompei, C., Andersen, K. H., Ohman, M. D., & Kiorboe, T. (2022). Fear and loathing in the pelagic: How the seascape of fear impacts the biological carbon pump. Limnology and Oceanography, 19. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12073
Lilly, L. E., Cornuelle, B. D., & Ohman, M. D. (2022). Using a Lagrangian particle tracking model to evaluate impacts of El Niño-related advection on euphausiids in the southern California Current System. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 187, 103835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2022.103835
Gastauer, S., Nickels, C. F., & Ohman, M. D. (2021). Body size- and season-dependent diel vertical migration of mesozooplankton resolved acoustically in the San Diego Trough. Limnology and Oceanography, 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11993
Matthews, S. A., Goetze, E., & Ohman, M. D. (2021). Recommendations for interpreting zooplankton metabarcoding and integrating molecular methods with morphological analyses. Ices Journal of Marine Science, 78(9), 3387–3396. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab107
Whitmore, B. M., & Ohman, M. D. (2021). Zooglider-measured association of zooplankton with the fine-scale vertical prey field. Limnology and Oceanography, 17. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11920
Rastetter, E. B., Ohman, M. D., Elliott, K. J., Rehage, J. S., Rivera-Monroy, V. H., Boucek, R. E., Castaneda-Moya, E., Danielson, T. M., Gough, L., Groffman, P. M., Jackson, C. R., Miniat, C. F., & Shaver, G. R. (2021). Time lags: insights from the US Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere, 12(5), 25. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3431
Chenillat, F., Riviere, P., & Ohman, M. D. (2021). On the sensitivity of plankton ecosystem models to the formulation of zooplankton grazing. PLOS ONE, 16(5). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252033
Lilly, L. E., & Ohman, M. D. (2021). Euphausiid spatial displacements and habitat shifts in the southern California Current System in response to El Nino variability. Progress in Oceanography, 193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2021.102544
Zaba, K. D., Franks, P. J. S., & Ohman, M. D. (2021). The California Undercurrent as a source of upwelled waters in a coastal filament. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 126(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016602
Chabert, P., d’Ovidio, F., Echevin, V., Stukel, M. R., & Ohman, M. D. (2021). Cross-shore flow and implications for carbon export in the California Current Ecosystem: A Lagrangian analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 126(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jc016611
Biard, T., & Ohman, M. D. (2020). Vertical niche definition of test-bearing protists (Rhizaria) into the twilight zone revealed by in situ imaging. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11472
Szesciorka, A. R., Ballance, L. T., Sirovic, A., Rice, A., Ohman, M. D., Hildebrand, J. A., & Franks, P. J. S. (2020). Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64855-y
Swalethorp, R., Aluwihare, L., Thompson, A. R., Ohman, M. D., & Landry, M. R. (2020). Errors associated with compound-specific delta N-15 analysis of amino acids in preserved fish samples purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10359
Ohman, M. D. (2019). A sea of tentacles: optically discernible traits resolved from planktonic organisms in situ. Ices Journal of Marine Science, 76(7), 1959–1972. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz184
Lilly, L. E., Send, U., Lankhorst, M., Martz, T. R., Feely, R. A., Sutton, A. J., & Ohman, M. D. (2019). Biogeochemical anomalies at two Southern California Current system moorings during the 2014-2016 Warm Anomaly-El Nino Sequence. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jc015255
Gaskell, D. E., Ohman, M. D., & Hull, P. M. (2019). Zooglider-based measurements of planktonic foraminifera in the California Current system. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 49(4), 390–404. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.49.4.390
Fender, C. K., Kelly, T. B., Guidi, L., Ohman, M. D., Smith, M. C., & Stukel, M. R. (2019). Investigating particle size-flux relationships and the biological pump across a range of plankton ecosystem states from coastal to oligotrophic. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00603
Kelly, T. B., Davison, P. C., Goericke, R., Landry, M. R., Ohman, M. D., & Stukel, M. R. (2019). The importance of mesozooplankton diel vertical migration for sustaining a mesopelagic food web. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00508
Brandon, J. A., Jones, W., & Ohman, M. D. (2019). Multidecadal increase in plastic particles in coastal ocean sediments. Science Advances, 5. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax0587
Kenitz, K. M., Visser, A. W., Ohman, M. D., Landry, M. R., & Andersen, K. H. (2019). Community trait distribution across environmental gradients. Ecosystems, 22(5), 968–980. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-018-0314-5
Ellen, J. S., Graff, C. A., & Ohman, M. D. (2019). Improving plankton image classification using context metadata. Limnology and Oceanography-Methods, 17(8), 439–461. https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10324
Stukel, M. R., Ohman, M. D., Kelly, T. B., & Biard, T. (2019). The roles of suspension-feeding and flux-feeding zooplankton as gatekeepers of particle flux into the mesopelagic ocean in the Northeast Pacific. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00397
Whitmore, B. M., Nickels, C. E., & Ohman, M. D. (2019). A comparison between Zooglider and shipboard net and acoustic mesozooplankton sensing systems. Journal of Plankton Research, 41(4), 521–533. https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbz033
Stukel, M. R., Kelly, T. B., Aluwihare, L. I., Barbeau, K. A., Goericke, R., Krause, J. W., Landry, M. R., & Ohman, M. D. (2019). The Carbon:(234)Thorium ratios of sinking particles in the California current ecosystem 1: relationships with plankton ecosystem dynamics. Marine Chemistry, 212, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2019.01.003
Hetherington, E. D., Kurle, C. M., Ohman, M. D., & Popp, B. N. (2019). Effects of chemical preservation on bulk and amino acid isotope ratios of zooplankton, fish, and squid tissues. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 33(10), 935–945. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8408
Lombard, F., Boss, E., Waite, A. M., Vogt, M., Uitz, J., Stemmann, L., Sosik, H. M., Schulz, J., Romagnan, J. B., Picheral, M., Pearlman, J., Ohman, M. D., Niehoff, B., Moller, K. M., Miloslavich, P., Lara-Lpez, A., Kudela, R., Lopes, R. M., Kiko, R., … Appeltans, W. (2019). Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6. https://doi.org/10.3119/fmars.2019.00196
de Verneil, A., Franks, P. J. S., & Ohman, M. D. (2019). Frontogenesis and the creation of fine-scale vertical phytoplankton structure. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 124(3), 1509–1523. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jc014645
Nickels, C. F., Sala, L. M., & Ohman, M. D. (2019). The euphausiid prey field for blue whales around a steep bathymetric feature in the southern California current system. Limnology and Oceanography, 64(1), 390–405. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11047
Ohman, M. D., Davis, R. E., Sherman, J. T., Grindley, K. R., Whitmore, B. M., Nickels, C. F., & Ellen, J. S. (2018). Zooglider: An autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1002/lom3.10301
Stukel, M. R., Biard, T., Krause, J., & Ohman, M. D. (2018). Large Phaeodaria in the twilight zone: Their role in the carbon cycle. Limnology and Oceanography, 63(6), 2579–2594. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10961
Kahru, M., Jacox, M. G., & Ohman, M. D. (2018). CCE1: Decrease in the frequency of oceanic fronts and surface chlorophyll concentration in the California Current System during the 2014-2016 northeast Pacific warm anomalies. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 140, 4–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.04.007
Morrow, R. M., Ohman, M. D., Goericke, R., Kelly, T. B., Stephens, B. M., & Stukel, M. R. (2018). CCE V: Primary production, mesozooplankton grazing, and the biological pump in the California Current Ecosystem: Variability and response to El Nino. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 140, 52–62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.07.012
Nickels, C. F., & Ohman, M. D. (2018). CCEIII: Persistent functional relationships between copepod egg production rates and food concentration through anomalously warm conditions in the California Current Ecosystem. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 140, 26–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.07.001
Lilly, L. E., & Ohman, M. D. (2018). CCE IV: El Nino-related zooplankton variability in the southern California Current System. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 140, 36–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2018.07.015
Nickels, C. F., Sala, L. M., & Ohman, M. D. (2018). The morphology of euphausiid mandibles used to assess selective predation by blue whales in the southern sector of the California Current System. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 38(5), 563–573. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruy062
Biard, T., Krause, J. W., Stukel, M. R., & Ohman, M. D. (2018). The significance of giant phaeodarians (rhizaria) to biogenic silica export in the California Current ecosystem. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(6), 987–1004. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gb005877
Lindegren, M., Checkley, D. M., Koslow, J. A., Goericke, R., & Ohman, M. D. (2018). Climate-mediated changes in marine ecosystem regulation during El Nino. Global Change Biology, 24(2), 796–809. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13993
Stukel, M. R., Aluwihare, L. I., Barbeau, K. A., Chekalyuk, A. M., Goericke, R., Miller, A. J., Ohman, M. D., Ruacho, A., Song, H., Stephens, B. M., & Landry, M. R. (2017). Mesoscale ocean fronts enhance carbon export due to gravitational sinking and subduction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(6), 1252–1257. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609435114
Brandon, J., Goldstein, M., & Ohman, M. D. (2016). Long-term aging and degradation of microplastic particles: Comparing in situ oceanic and experimental weathering patterns. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 110(1), 299–308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.06.048