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Glen A. Tarran is affiliated with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work addresses various topics within marine science, such as marine and coastal ecosystems, microbial community ecology and physiology, marine biology and ecology research, ocean acidification effects and responses, isotope analysis in ecology, protist diversity and phylogeny, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Glen A. Tarran has contributed to multiple papers published in recognized journals, including:

  • Increasing picocyanobacteria success in shelf waters contributes to long-term food web degradation, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Phytoplankton responses to changing temperature and nutrient availability are consistent across the tropical and subtropical Atlantic, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Increasing nutrient stress reduces the efficiency of energy transfer through planktonic size spectra, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • High spatial resolution global ocean metagenomes from Bio-GO-SHIP repeat hydrography transects, 2021, Scientific Data
  • Interoperable vocabulary for marine microbial flow cytometry, 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as Frontiers in Marine Science, Optics Express, Limnology and Oceanography, Scientific Data, and Biogeochemistry.

Frequent collaborators have included:

  • E. Malcolm S. Woodward (12 coauthored publications)
  • Claire E. Widdicombe (9 coauthored publications)
  • Andrew P. Rees (8 coauthored publications)
  • Tim Smyth (6 coauthored publications)
  • Angus Atkinson (5 coauthored publications)

Best Publications

  • High bacterivory by the smallest phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Glen A. Tarran

  • High rate of uptake of organic nitrogen compounds by Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria as a key to their dominance in oligotrophic oceanic waters.

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Glen A. Tarran;Peter H. Burkill

  • Picoplanktonic community structure on an Atlantic transect from 50°N to 50°S

    Mikhail V Zubkov;Michael A Sleigh;Glen A Tarran;Peter H Burkill

  • Mixotrophic basis of Atlantic oligotrophic ecosystems

    Manuela Hartmann;Carolina Grob;Glen A. Tarran;Adrian P. Martin

  • Latitudinal distribution of prokaryotic picoplankton populations in the Atlantic Ocean

    Martha Schattenhofer;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Rudolf Amann;Mikhail V. Zubkov

  • Hydroxamate siderophores: Occurrence and importance in the Atlantic Ocean

    Edward Mawji;Martha Gledhill;James A. Milton;Glen A. Tarran

  • Isolation of viruses responsible for the demise of an Emiliania huxleyi bloom in the English Channel

    William H. Wilson;Glen A. Tarran;Declan Schroeder;Michael Cox

  • Latitudinal changes in the standing stocks of nano- and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton in the Atlantic Ocean

    Glen A. Tarran;Jane L. Heywood;Mikhail V. Zubkov

  • The life-cycle of Emiliania huxleyi: A brief review and a study of relative ploidy levels analysed by flow cytometry

    J.C. Green;P.A. Course;G.A. Tarran

  • Depth related amino acid uptake by Prochlorococcus cyanobacteria in the Southern Atlantic tropical gyre

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Glen A. Tarran;Bernhard M. Fuchs

  • Microbial community structure and standing stocks in the NE Atlantic in June and July of 1996

    GA Tarran;MV Zubkov;MA Sleigh;PH Burkill

  • Production and turnover of particulate dimethylsulphoniopropionate during a coccolithophore bloom in the northern North Sea

    Stephen D. Archer;Claire E. Widdicombe;Glen A. Tarran;Andrew P. Rees

  • SAR11 dominance among metabolically active low nucleic acid bacterioplankton in surface waters along an Atlantic Meridional Transect

    I. Mary;J.L. Heywood;B.M. Fuchs;R. Amann

  • Stabilization of engineered zero-valent nanoiron with Na-acrylic copolymer enhances spermiotoxicity.

    Eniko Kadar;Glenn A Tarran;Awadhesh N Jha;Sherain N Al-Subiai

  • Nutrient limitation of picophytoplankton photosynthesis and growth in the tropical North Atlantic

    Margaret Davey;Glen A. Tarran;Matthew M. Mills;Celine Ridame

  • Phytoplankton community structure in the Arabian Sea during and after the SW monsoon, 1994

    Glen A. Tarran;Peter H. Burkill;Elaine S. Edwards;E.Malcolm S. Woodward

  • Amino acid uptake of Prochlorococcus spp. in surface waters across the South Atlantic Subtropical Front

    Mikhail V. Zubkov;Glen A. Tarran

  • Dimethyl sulphide biogeochemistry within a coccolithophore bloom (DISCO): An overview

    Peter H Burkill;Stephen D Archer;Carol Robinson;Philip D Nightingale

  • Phytoplankton responses to changing temperature and nutrient availability are consistent across the tropical and subtropical Atlantic

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  • Neural network analysis of flow cytometric data for 40 marine phytoplankton species

    Lynne Boddy;C. W. Morris;M. F. Wilkins;G. A. Tarran

  • Identification of 72 phytoplankton species by radial basis function neural network analysis of flow cytometric data

    Lynne Boddy;C. W. Morris;M. F. Wilkins;Luan Al-Haddad

  • Coccolithophore dynamics in non-bloom conditions during late summer in the central Iceland Basin (July-August 2007)

    Alex J. Poulton;Anastasia Charalampopoulou;Jeremy R. Young;Glen A. Tarran

  • Increasing picocyanobacteria success in shelf waters contributes to long-term food web degradation.

    Katrin Schmidt;Antony J. Birchill;Angus Atkinson;Robert J. W. Brewin;Robert J. W. Brewin

Frequent Co-Authors

Mikhail V. Zubkov
Mikhail V. Zubkov National Oceanography Centre
Peter H. Burkill
Peter H. Burkill Plymouth University
Timothy J Smyth
Timothy J Smyth Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Robert J. W. Brewin
Robert J. W. Brewin University of Exeter
Bernhard M. Fuchs
Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society
Andrew P. Rees
Andrew P. Rees Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Alex J. Poulton
Alex J. Poulton Heriot-Watt University
Giorgio Dall'Olmo
Giorgio Dall'Olmo Plymouth Marine Laboratory
David J. Scanlan
David J. Scanlan University of Warwick
E. Malcolm S. Woodward
E. Malcolm S. Woodward Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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