Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic level consumers. A research group examined terrestrial reliance of 19 ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic ...

Beneath Sri Lanka’s serene waters, a pearl oyster cherished her pearl, living in harmony. But disaster struck when a blazing ...

Salps are zooplankton, which the Environmental Protection Agency calls “the animals of the planktonic community.” While phytoplankton produce energy from the sun, zooplankton consume their energy.

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, lifts off for the International Space Station ...

Have you seen the clear, gelatinous creatures all over Grand Strand beaches? Here’s what the blobs are and why they’re ...

“Upwelling brings lots of nutrients, and lots of nutrients bring phytoplankton and zooplankton.” Bright blue Velellas wash ashore on a beach in Sardinia, Italy, in 2024. Margherita Bassi ...

Investigations have now revealed that the dolphins may have starved because key habitats for nutritious prey were destroyed by a phytoplankton bloom. This bloom was driven by the accumulation in ...

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 ...

This can be as a result of feeding on biotoxin producing phytoplankton. There are currently three groups of regulated biotoxins for shellfish. These can cause: paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) ...

The plankton, small crustaceans ... Basking sharks are filter-feeders, which means they consume vast amounts of zooplankton, small fish, and invertebrates by swimming with their mouths open and ...