Clean and safe lake water is an important part of the Finnish identity. In recent decades, interest in the condition of lake ...

In addition to being a crucial source of oxygen, phytoplankton form the base of aquatic food webs. Small fish, crustaceans, and zooplankton feed on phytoplankton. Those creatures are then eaten by ...

Focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in marine systems. CalCOFI is a long-term, interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral ecosystem research program off the coast of California that ...

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them. A year ago, NASA launched a satellite that provided the most detailed ...

How is organic matter transported from productive coastal areas to the open ocean? Researchers have now shown that eddies play a crucial role in this process. The swirling currents contain large ...

Mesoscale eddies, oceanic gyres about 100 kilometers in diameter, are ubiquitous features of the global ocean and play a ...

Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do, zooplankton instead consume phytoplankton ... global warming on the marine carbon cycle and food webs. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in ...

HUMANS live in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms blanket the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, and are among the most abundant forms of life on Earth. But as the world ...

During cyanobacterial blooms, small-bodied zooplankton tend to dominate plankton communities ... morphology, and poor food quality) (Porter 1977). However, the biomass of planktivorous fish ...