Picoplankton Diel Variability and Estimated Growth Rates in Epipelagic and Mesopelagic Waters of the Central Red Sea

We gratefully acknowledge the crew of the RVs Thuwal and KAUST Explorer and all the personnel from the Coastal and Marine Resources Core Lab for their diligent field-work assistance. Luis Silva designed and performed the winter experiment for estimating specific growth rates. Miguel Viegas, Eman I. Sabbagh, Abbrar Labban, Maria Ll. Calleja, Katherine Rowe, Anders Rostad, and Luis Silva aided enormously with fieldwork