PRIMARY PUBLICATIONS
1976 Parsons, T.R., WKW Li and R. Waters. Some preliminary observations on the enhancement of phytoplankton growth by low levels of mineral hydrocarbons. Hydrobiologia 51:86-89. pdf
1978 Li, WKW Kinetic analysis of interactive effects of cadmium and nitrate on growth of Thalassiosira fluviatilis (Bacillariophyceae). Journal of Phycology, 14:454-460. pdf
1979 Li, WKW Cellular composition and physiological characteristics of the diatom Thalassiosira fluviatilis adapted to cadmium stress. Marine Biology, 55:171-180. pdf
1980 Li, WKW Cellular accumulation and distribution of cadmium in Isochrysis galbana during growth inhibition and recovery. Journal of Plankton Research, 2:283-294. pdf
1980 Li, WKW, H.E. Glover and I. Morris. Physiology of carbon photoassimilation by Oscillatoria thiebautii in the Caribbean sea. Limnology and Oceanography, 25:447-456. pdf
1980 Li, WKW Temperature adaptation in phytoplankton: cellular and photosynthetic characteristics. In: Primary productivity in the sea, edited by P.G. Falkowski, Plenum Press, pp.259-279. pdf
1981 Li, WKW and J.C. Goldman. Problems in estimating growth rates of marine phytoplankton from short-term 14C assays. Microbial Ecology, 7:113-121. pdf
1982 Li, WKW and I. Morris. Temperature adaptation in Phaeodactylum tricornutum Bohlin:photosynthetic rate compensation and capacity. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 58:135-150. pdf
1982 Li, WKW Estimating heterotrophic bacterial productivity by inorganic radiocarbon uptake: importance of establishing time courses of uptake. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 8:167-172. pdf
1982 Li, WKW and T. Platt. Distribution of carbon among photosynthetic end-products in phytoplankton of the eastern Canadian arctic. Journal of Phycology, 18:466-471. pdf
1982 Li, WKW and W.G. Harrison. Carbon flow into the end-products of photosynthesis in short and long incubations of a natural phytoplankton population. Marine Biology, 72:175-182. pdf
1983 Li, WKW Consideration of errors in estimating kinetic parameters based on Michaelis-Menten formalism in microbial ecology. Limnology and Oceanography, 28:185-190. pdf
1983 Li, WKW, D.V. Subba Rao, W.G. Harrison, J.C. Smith, J.J. Cullen, B. Irwin and T. Platt. Autotrophic picoplankton in the tropical ocean. Science, 219:292-295. pdf
1983 Platt, T., D.V. Subba Rao, J.C. Smith, WKW Li, B. Irwin, E.P.W. Horne and D.D. Sameoto. Photosynthetically-competent phytoplankton from the aphotic zone of the deep ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 10:105-110. pdf
1984 Li, WKW Microbial uptake of radiolabelled substrates: estimates of growth rates from time course measurements. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 47:184-192. pdf
1984 Li, WKW, J.C. Smith and T. Platt. Temperature response of photosynthetic capacity and carboxylase activity in arctic marine phytoplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 17:237-243. pdf
1984 Li, WKW A modified logistic growth equation: effects of cadmium chloride on the diatom Thalassiosira fluviatilis and the dinoflagellate Amphidinium carteri in unialgal and bialgal batch cultures. Aquatic Toxicology, 5:307-313. pdf
1984 Li, WKW and P.M. Dickie. Rapid enhancement of heterotrophic but not photosynthetic activities in arctic microbial plankton at mesobiotic temperatures. Polar Biology, 3:217-226. pdf
1985 Li, WKW Photosynthetic response to temperature of marine phytoplankton along a latitudinal gradient (16oN to 74oN). Deep-Sea Research, 32:1381-1391. pdf
1985 Li, WKW and P.M Dickie. Metabolic inhibition of size-fractionated marine plankton radiolabelled with amino acids, glucose, bicarbonate and phosphate in the light and dark. Microbial Ecology, 11:11-24. pdf
1985 Li, WKW and P.M. Dickie. Growth of bacteria in seawater filtered through 0.2 um Nuclepore membranes: implications for dilution experiments. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 26:245-252. pdf
1985 Smith, J.C., T. Platt, WKW Li, E.P.W. Horne, W.G. Harrison, D.V. Subba Rao and B.D. Irwin. Arctic marine photoautotrophic picoplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 20:207-220. pdf
1985 Parsons, T.R., J.C. Sharp and WKW Li. The cultivation of marine amphipods and their use as food for young salmonids. Zeitschrift fur angewandte Ichthyologie, 2:77-84. pdf
1986 Li, WKW Experimental approaches to field measurements: methods and interpretation. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 214: 251-286. pdf
1986 Li, WKW and J.C. Goldman. Exponential growth rates of phytoplankton calculated from carbon-14 uptake rates: a clarification. Journal of Plankton Research, 8:1177-1181. pdf
1987 Li, WKW and P.M. Dickie. Temperature characteristics of photosynthetic and heterotrophic activities: seasonal variations in temperate microbial plankton. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 53:2282-2295. pdf
1987 Li, WKW and T. Platt. Photosynthetic picoplankton in the ocean. Science Progress, 71:153-168. pdf
1987 Harrison, W.G., WKW Li, J.C. Smith, E.J.H. Head and A.R. Longhurst. Depth profiles of plankton, particulate organic matter and microbial activity in the eastern Canadian arctic during summer. Polar Biology, 7:207-224. pdf
1987 Smith, R.E.H., P. Clement, G.F. Cota and WKW Li. Intracellular photosynthate allocation and the control of arctic marine ice algal production. Journal of Phycology, 23:124-132. pdf
1988 Li, WKW and A.M. Wood. Vertical distribution of North Atlantic ultraphytoplankton: analysis by flow cytometry and epifluorescence microscopy. Deep-Sea Research, 35:1615-1638. pdf
1989 Li, WKW Shipboard analytical flow cytometry of oceanic ultraphytoplankton. Cytometry, 10:564-579. pdf
1989 Lande, R., WKW Li, E.P.W. Horne and A.M. Wood. Phytoplankton growth rates estimated from depth profiles of cell concentration and turbulent diffusion. Deep-Sea Research, 36:1141-1159. pdf
1989 Longhurst, A.R., T. Platt, W.G. Harrison, E.J.H. Head, A.W. Herman, E. Horne, R.J. Conover, WKW Li, D.V. Subba Rao, D. Sameoto, J.C. Smith and R.E.H. Smith. Biological oceanography of the Canadian high arctic. Rapports et Procès-Verbaux des Réunions Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer, 188:80-89. pdf
1989 Platt, T., W.G. Harrison, M.R. Lewis, WKW Li, S. Sathyendranath, R.E. Smith and A.F. Vezina. Biological production of the oceans: the case for a consensus. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 52:77-88. pdf
1990 Li, WKW Bivariate analysis in flow cytometry: phytoplankton size and fluorescence. Limnology and Oceanography, 35:1356-1368. pdf
1990 Li, WKW Particles in "particle-free" seawater: growth of ultraphytoplankton and implications for dilution experiments. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 47:1258-1268. pdf
1991 Li, WKW and P.M. Dickie. Light and dark carbon-14 uptake in dimly-lit oligotrophic waters: relation to bacterial activity. Journal of Plankton Research, 13 supplement:29-44. pdf
1991 Subba Rao, D.V., F. Partensky, G. Wohlgeschaffen and WKW Li. Flow cytometry and microscopy of gametogenesis in Nitzschia pungens, a toxic, bloom-forming, marine diatom. Journal of Phycology, 27:21-26. pdf
1991 Li, WKW and P.M. Dickie. Relationship between the number of dividing and nondividing cells of cyanobacteria in North Atlantic picoplankton. Journal of Phycology 27:559-565. pdf
1992 Li, WKW, P.M. Dickie, B.D. Irwin and A.M. Wood. Biomass of bacteria, cyanobacteria, prochlorophytes and photosynthetic eukaryotes in the Sargasso Sea. Deep-Sea Research, 39:501-519. pdf
1992 Li, WKW, M.R. Lewis and A. Lister. Flow cytometric detection of prochlorophytes and cyanobacteria in the Gulf of Policastro, Italy. Archiv fur Hydrobiologie, 124:309-316. pdf
1992 Longhurst, A.R., I. Koike, WKW Li, J. Rodriguez, P. Dickie, P. Kepkay, F. Partensky, B. Bautista, J. Ruiz, M. Wells and D.F. Bird. Sub-micron particles in northwest Atlantic shelf water. Deep-Sea Research, 39:1-7. pdf
1992 Furuya, K. and WKW Li. Evaluation of photosynthetic capacity in phytoplankton by flow cytometric analysis of DCMU-enhanced chlorophyll fluorescence. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 88:279-287. pdf
1992 Subba Rao, D.V., F. Partensky, G. Wohlgeschaffen and WKW Li. Gametogenesis in Nitzschia pungens F. multiseries. Journal of Phycology, 28:574-576. pdf
1993 Li, WKW Estimation of primary production by flow cytometry. ICES Marine Science Symposium, 197:79-91. pdf
1993 Li, WKW, T. Zohary, Y.Z. Yacobi and A.M. Wood. Ultraphytoplankton in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: towards deriving phytoplankton biomass from flow cytometric measurements of abundance, fluorescence and light scatter. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 102:79-87. pdf
1993 Li, WKW, P.M. Dickie, W.G. Harrison and B.D. Irwin. Biomass and production of bacteria and phytoplankton during the spring bloom in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II, 40:307-327. pdf
1993 Li, WKW, B.D. Irwin and P.M. Dickie. Dark fixation of 14C: variations related to biomass and productivity of phytoplankton and bacteria. Limnology and Oceanography, 38:483-494. pdf
1993 Harrison, W.G., E.J.H. Head, E.P.W. Horne, B. Irwin, WKW Li, A.R. Longhurst, M.A. Paranjape and T. Platt. The western North Atlantic bloom experiment. Deep-Sea Research II, 40:279-305. pdf
1993 Partensky, F., Hoepffner, N., WKW Li, O. Ulloa and D. Vaulot. Photoacclimation of Prochlorococcus sp. (Prochlorophyta) strains isolated from the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Plant Physiology, 101:285-296. pdf
1993 Pan, Y., D.V. Subba Rao, K.H. Mann, WKW Li and R.E. Warnock. Temperature dependence of growth and carbon assimilation in Nitzschia pungens F. multiseries, the causative diatom of domoic acid poisoning. In: Toxic phytoplankton blooms in the sea, edited by T.J. Smayda and Y. Shimizu, Elsevier Science Publishers, pp. 619-624. pdf
1994 Li, WKW Primary production of prochlorophytes, cyanobacteria, and eucaryotic ultraphytoplankton: measurements from flow cytometric sorting. Limnology and Oceanography, 39:169-175. pdf
1994 Li, WKW Phytoplankton biomass and chlorophyll concentration across the North Atlantic. Scientia Marina, 58:67-79. pdf
1994 García, C.M., F. Jiménez-Gómez, J. Rodríguez, B. Bautista, M. Estrada, J. García Braun, J.M. Gasol, F. Gómez Figueiras, F. Guerrero, F. Jiménez Montes, WKW Li, J.M. Lopez Díaz, G. Santiago and M. Varela. The size structure and functional composition of ultraplankton and nanoplankton at a frontal station in the Alboran Sea. Working groups 2 and 3 report. Scientia Marina, 58:43-52. pdf
1995 Li, WKW Composition of ultraphytoplankton in the central North Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 122:1-8. pdf
1995 Li, WKW, J.F. Jellett and P.M. Dickie. DNA distributions in planktonic bacteria stained with TOTO or TO-PRO. Limnology and Oceanography, 40:1485-1495. pdf
1995 Yacobi, Y.Z., T. Zohary, N. Kress, A. Hecht, R.D. Robarts, M. Waiser, A.M. Wood and WKW Li. Chlorophyll distribution throughout the southeastern Mediterranean in relation to the physical structure of the water mass. Journal of Marine Systems, 6:179-190. pdf
1996 Pan Y., D.V. Subba Rao, K.H. Mann, WKW Li, W.G. Harrison. Effects of silicate limitation on production of domoic acid, a neurotoxin, by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multiseries II: Continuous culture studies. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 131:235-243. pdf
1996 Graziano, L.M, R.J. Geider, WKW Li and M. Olaizola. Nitrogen limitation of north Atlantic ultraplankton: analysis of phytoplankton physiological condition in nutrient enrichment experiments by pump-and-probe fluorometry and flow cytometry. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 11:53-64. pdf
1996 Jellett, J.F., WKW Li, P.M. Dickie, A. Boraie and P.E. Kepkay. Metabolic activity of bacterioplankton communities assessed by flow cytometry and single carbon substrate utilization. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 136:213-225. pdf
1996 Head, E.J.H., W.G. Harrison, B.D. Irwin, E.P.W. Horne and WKW Li. Plankton dynamics in an area of upwelling off the coast of Morocco. Deep-Sea Research I 43:1713-1738. pdf
1997 Li, WKW Cytometric diversity in marine ultraphytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography, 42:874-880. pdf
1998 Lutz, V.A., S. Sathyendranath. E.J.H. Head and WKW Li. Differences between in vivo absorption and fluorescence excitation spectra in natural samples of phytoplankton. Journal of Phycology 34:214-227. pdf
1998 Li, WKW Annual average abundance of heterotrophic bacteria and Synechococcus in surface ocean waters. Limnology and Oceanography, 43:1746-1753. pdf
1998 Zohary, T., S. Brenner, M.D. Krom, D.L. Angel, N. Kress, WKW Li, A. Neori and Y.Z. Yacobi. Buildup of microbial biomass during deep winter mixing in a Mediterranean warm-core eddy. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 167:47-57. pdf
2001 Li, WKW and P.M. Dickie. Monitoring phytoplankton. bacterioplankton, and virioplankton in a coastal inlet (Bedford Basin) by flow cytometry. Cytometry 44:236-246. pdf
2001 Li, WKW and W.G. Harrison. Chlorophyll, bacteria and picophytoplankton in ecological provinces of the North Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research II. 48:2271-2293. pdf
2001 Harrison, W.G., J. Arístegui, E.J.H. Head, WKW Li, A.R. Longhurst and D.D. Sameoto. Basin-scale variability in plankton biomass and community metabolism in the sub-tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II. 48:2241-2269. pdf
2001 Lutz, V.A., S. Sathyendranath, E.J.H. Head and WKW Li. Changes in the in vivo absorption and fluorescence excitation spectra with growth irradiance in three species of phytoplankton. Journal of Plankton Research 23:555-569. pdf
2001 Wood, A.M., WKW Li, R. Arnone, R. Gould and S. Lohrenz. Optical biogeography of Prochlorococcus and phycoerythrin containing picocyanobacteria on the West Florida shelf. Journal of Phycology 37 s3:55. pdf
2002 Li, WKW Macroecological patterns of phytoplankton in the northwestern North Atlantic Ocean. Nature 419:154-157. pdf
2002 Wood, A.M., S.R. Miller, WKW Li and R.W. Castenholz. Preliminary studies of cyanobacteria, picoplankton and virioplankton in the Salton Sea with special attention to phylogenetic diversity among eight strains of filamentous cyanobacteria. Hydrobiologia, 473:77-92. pdf
2003 Bouman, H.A., T. Platt, S. Sathyendranath, WKW Li, V. Stuart, C. Fuentes-Yaco, H. Maass, E.P.W. Horne, O. Ulloa, V. Lutz and M. Kyewalyanga. Temperature as indicator of optical properties and community structure of marine phytoplankton: implications for remote sensing. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 258: 19-30. pdf
2003 Lutz, V.A., S. Sathyendranath, E.J.H. Head and WKW Li. Variability in pigment composition and optical characteristics of phytoplankton in the Labrador Sea and the Central North Atlantic. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 260: 1-18 pdf
2003 Ning X.R., Y.M. Cai, WKW Li, J.X. Shi. Photosynthetic picoplankton in the northern South China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica 25: 82-97. pdf
2004 Sathyendranath, S., T. Platt, B. Irwin, E. Horne, G. Borstad, V. Stuart, L. Payzant, H. Maass, P. Kepkay, WKW Li, J. Spry and J. Gower. A multispectral remote sensing study of coastal waters off Vancouver Island. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25: 893-919. pdf
2004 Li, WKW, E.J.H. Head and W.G. Harrison. Macroecological limits of heterotrophic bacterial abundance in the ocean. Deep-Sea Research 1, 51:1529-1540. pdf
2005 Harrison, W.G., T. Perry and WKW Li. Ecosystem indicators of water quality. I Plankton biomass, primary production and nutrient demand. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Vol. 5, Part M: 59-82, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pdf
2005 Ning, X., WKW Li, Y. Cai and J. Shi. Comparative analysis of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton in three ecological provinces of the northern South China Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 293:17-28. pdf
2005 Ning, X.R., WKW Li, Y.M. Cai, C.G. Liu and J.X. Shi. Standing stock and community structure of photosynthetic picoplankton in the northern South China Sea. Acta Oceanologica Sinica 24: 57-76.
2006 Li WKW, Harrison W.G. and Head E.J.H. Coherent sign switching in multiyear trends of microbial plankton. Science 311:1157-1160. pdf
2006 Li WKW, Harrison W.G. and Head E.J.H. Coherent assembly of phytoplankton communities in diverse temperate ocean ecosystems Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273:1953-1960 pdf
2006 Bouman HA, Ulloa O, Scanlan DJ, Zwirglmaier K, Li WKW, Platt T, Stuart V, Barlow R, Leth O, Clementson L, Lutz V, Fukasawa M, Watanabe S, Sathyendranath S. Oceanographic basis of the global surface distribution of Prochlorococcus ecotypes. Science 312: 918-921. pdf
2006 Scarratt MG, Marchetti A, Hale MS, Rivkin RB, Michaud S, Matthews P, Levasseur M, Sherry N, Merzouk A, Li WKW and Kiyosawa, H. Assessing microbial responses to iron enrichment in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific: Do microcosms reproduce the in situ condition? Deep Sea Research II 53: 2182-2200. pdf
2006 Hale MS, Rivkin RB, Matthews P, Agawin NSR, and Li WKW. Microbial response to a mesoscale iron enrichment in the NE subarctic Pacific: Heterotrophic bacterial processes, Deep Sea Research II 53: 2231-2247. pdf
2006 Agawin NSR, Hale MS, Rivkin RB, Matthews P, and Li WKW, Microbial response to a mesoscale iron enrichment in the NE Subarctic Pacific: Bacterial community composition, Deep Sea Research II 53: 2248-2267. pdf
2006 Merzouk A, Levasseur M, Scarratt MG, Michaud S, Rivkin RB, Hale MS, Kiene RP, Price NM, and Li WKW. DMSP and DMS dynamics during a mesoscale iron fertilization experiment in the Northeast Pacific-Part II Biological cycling. Deep-Sea Research II 53: 2370-2383. pdf
2007 Grob, C., Ulloa O, Li, WKW, Alarcón G, Fukasawa, M. and Watanabe S Picoplankton abundance and biomass across the eastern South Pacific Ocean along latitude 32.5° S. Marine Ecology Progress Series 332:53-62. pdf
2007 Cullen, J.J., W.F. Doolittle, S.A. Levin and WKW Li. Patterns and prediction in microbial oceanography. Oceanography 20(2): 34-46. pdf
2007 Li, WKW Macroscopic patterns in marine plankton. In: Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Volume 2. (S.A. Levin, ed.), Elsevier Press. doi:10.1016/B978-012226865-6/00582-1. pdf
2008 Li, WKW and WG Harrison Propagation of an atmospheric climate signal to phytoplankton in a small marine basin. Limnology and Oceanography 53:1734-1745. pdf
2008 Harrison WG and WKW Li Phytoplankton growth and regulation in the Labrador Sea: light and nutrient limitation. Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science 39:71-82. pdf
2008 Doolittle, DF, WKW Li and AM Wood Wintertime abundance of picoplankton in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Nova Hedwigia, Beiheft 133:147-160. pdf
2009 Li, WKW Plankton populations and communities. In Witman, J. and K. Roy (Eds.) Marine Macroecology. University of Chicago Press. University of Chicago Press, pp 29-64. pdf
2009 Li, WKW From cytometry to macroecology: a quarter century quest in microbial oceanography. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 57:239-257. pdf
2009 Almeida, E., M. Dowd, J. M. Flemming and WKW Li An analysis of plankton and other biogeochemical variables from Bedford Basin, NS, Canada using state space models. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 7: 833-847. pdf
2009 Li, WKW, McLaughlin FA, Lovejoy C, Carmack EC. Smallest algae thrive as the Arctic Ocean freshens. Science 326(5952):539. pdf
2010 Li WKW, Lewis MR and Harrison WG. Multiscalarity of the nutrient-chlorophyll relationship in coastal phytoplankton. Estuaries and Coasts 33:440-447. doi 10.1007/s12237?008?9119?7 pdf
2010 Morán XAG, Á López-Urrutia, A Calvo-Díaz, and WKW Li. Increasing importance of small phytoplankton in a warmer ocean. Global Change Biology. 1137-1144. pdf
2011 Bouman HA, Ulloa O, Barlow R, Li WKW, Platt T, Zwirglmaier K, Scanlan DJ, and Sathyendranath S. Water-column stratification governs the community structure of subtropical marine picophytoplankton. Environmental Microbiology Reports doi:10.1111/j.1758-2229.2011.00241.x pdf
2011 Bode A, Hare J, Li WKW, Morán XAG and Valdés L. Chlorophyll and primary production in the North Atlantic. In: Reid PC and Valdés L [Eds] ICES status report on climate change in the North Atlantic, ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 310, 262pp. pdf
2011 Li WKW, Andersen RA, Gifford DJ, Incze LS, Martin JL, Pilskaln CH, Rooney-Varga JN, Sieracki, ME, Wilson WH, Wolff NH. 2011 Planktonic microbes in the Gulf of Maine area. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20981 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020981 pdf
2011 Comeau AM, Li WKW, Tremblay JÉ, Carmack EC, and Lovejoy C. Arctic ocean microbial community structure before and after the 2007 record sea ice minimum. PloS ONE 6(11);e27492. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0027492. pdf
2012 Li WKW. O Canada, o quanta qualia. Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics 12:1-4. pdf
2012 Craig SE, Jones CT, Li WKW, Lazin G, Horne E, Caverhill C, and Cullen JJ. Deriving optical metrics of coastal phytoplankton biomass from ocean colour. Remote Sensing of the Environment 119:72-83. pdf
2012 Buitenhuis ET, Li WKW, Vaulot D, Lomas MW, Landry M, Partensky F, Karl DM, Ulloa O, Campbell L, Jacquet S, Lantoine F, Chavez F, Macias D, Gosselin M, and McManus GB. Picophytoplankton biomass distribution in the global ocean. Earth System Science Data Discussion, 5, 221-242, www.earth-syst-sci-data?discuss.net/5/221/2012/ doi:10.5194/essdd-5-221-2012 pdf
2012 Buitenhuis ET, Li WKW, Lomas MW, Karl DM, Landry MR, Jacquet S. Picoheterotroph (Bacteria and Archaea) biomass distribution in the global ocean. Earth System Science Data Discussion, 5, 301-315, www.earth?syst?sci?data?discuss.net/5/301/2012/ doi:10.5194/essdd-5-301-2012. pdf
2012 Li WKW, Poulton N, Sieracki M, Martin J, LeGresley M. Phytoplankton and microbial plankton of the northwest Atlantic Shelf. In: O'Brien TD, Li WKW, Morán XAG (Eds.) 2012. ICES Phytoplankton and Microbial Plankton Status Report 2009/2010. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 313, pp. 19-31. pdf
2012 Li WKW. Phytoplankton and microbial plankton of the Labrador Sea. In: O'Brien TD, Li WKW, Morán XAG (Eds.) 2012. ICES Phytoplankton and Microbial Plankton Status Report 2009/2010. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 313, pp. 32-37. pdf
2012 Li WKW, O'Brien TD, Morán XAG. Spatio-temporal atlas of the North Atlantic. In: O'Brien TD, Li WKW, Morán XAG (Eds.) 2012. ICES Phytoplankton and Microbial Plankton Status Report 2009/2010. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 313, pp. 168-179. pdf
2013 Li WKW, Lopez-Urrutia A. Macroscopic patterns in marine plankton. In: Levin SA (ed.) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Volume 4, pp.667-668, Waltham, MA: Academic Press. pdf
2013 Flombaum P, Gallegos JL, Gordillo RA, Rincon J, Zabala LL, Jiao N, Karl DM, Li WKW, Lomas MW, Veneziano D, Vera CS, Vrugt JA, Martiny AC. Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 110:9824-9829. pdf
2013 Harrison WG, Børsheim KY, Li WKW, Maillet GL, Pepin P, Sakshaug E, Skogen MD, Yeats, PA. Phytoplankton production and growth regulation in the Subarctic North Atlantic: A comparative study of the Labrador Sea-Labrador/Newfoundland shelves and Barents/Norwegian/Greenland seas and shelves. Progress in Oceanography 114:26-45. pdf
2013 Li WKW, Carmack EC, McLaughlin FA, Nelson RJ, Williams WJ. Space-for-time substitution in predicting the state of picoplankton and nanoplankton in a changing Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 118: 5750-5759. pdf
2014 Georges AA, El-Swais H, Craig SE, Li WKW, Walsh DA. Metaproteomic analysis of a winter to spring succession in coastal northwest Atlantic Ocean microbial plankton. The ISME Journal 8:1301-1313. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.234. pdf
2014 Dasilva CR, Li WKW, Lovejoy C. Phylogenetic diversity of eukaryotic marine microbial plankton on the Scotian Shelf Northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Journal of Plankton Research 36:344-363. doi:10.1093/plankt/fbt123. pdf
2014 Li WKW. Plankton ecology at BIO, 1962-2012. In: Voyage of Discovery: Fifty Years of Marine Research at Canada's Bedford Institute of Oceanography. Edited by D.N. Nettleship, D.C. Gordon, C.F.M. Lewis, and M.P. Latremouille. BIO Oceans Association, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, pp.77-86. pdf
2014 Nelson RJ, Ashjian C, Bluhm B, Conlan K, Gradinger R, Grebmeier J, Hill V, Hopcroft R, Hunt B, Joo H, Kirchman D, Kosobokova, K, Lee S, Li WKW, Lovejoy C, Poulin M, Sherr E, Young K. Biodiversity and biogeography of the lower trophic taxa of the Pacific Arctic Region: Sensitivities to climate change. In: J.M. Grebmeier and W. Maslowski (eds.), The Pacific Arctic Region: Ecosystem Status and Trends in a Rapidly Changing Environment, DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-8863-2_10, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014, pp. 269-336. pdf
2015 Craig SE, Thomas H, Jones CT, Li WKW, Greenan BJW, Shadwick EH, Burt WJ. The effect of seasonality in phytoplankton community composition on CO2 uptake on the Scotian Shelf. Journal of Marine Systems 147:52-60. doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.07.006. pdf
2015 El-Swais H, Dunn KA, Bielawski JP, Li WKW, Walsh DA. Seasonal assemblages and short-lived blooms in coastal northwest Atlantic Ocean bacterioplankton. Environmental Microbiology 17 (10 SI): 3642-3661. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12629. pdf
2015 Sinclair M, Power M, Head E, Li WKW, McMahon M, Mohn R, O'Boyle R, Swain D, Tremblay J. Wastern Scotian Shelf trophic dynamics: A review of the evidence for diverse hypotheses. Progress in Oceanography 138:305-321. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2015.09.005 pdf
2016 Dasilva CR, Li WKW, Lovejoy C. Tracking environmental selection of marine microbial eukaryotes using 18S rRNA genes and 18S rRNA in the Gulf of Maine. In revision.
2016 Hale MS, Li WKW, Rivkin RB. Meridional patterns of inorganic nutrient limitation and co-limitation of bacterial growth in the Atlantic Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, pdf
2019 Zorz J, Willis C, Comeau AM, Langille MGI, Johnson CL, Li WKW, LaRoche J. Drivers of regional bacterial community structure and diversity in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Microbiology, Vol. 10, Article 281, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00281 pdf