Global research shows how plankton adapt their cell membranes to survive changing ocean light, nutrients, and temperature.

However, when the phytoplankton die, marine bacteria can eat their rotting carcasses and a lot of the captured carbon dioxide is released back into the atmosphere. That’s where the zooplankton ...

Temperatures around the world continue to rise—and the North Sea is no exception. Yet, in addition to this gradual warming, ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...

Like plants on land, phytoplankton use sunlight and CO₂ to grow through photosynthesis. Zooplankton, on the other hand, are tiny animals that mostly eat phytoplankton. They come in many shapes ...

Zooplankton—tiny aquatic animals known to ... "I was expecting to see a negative effect associated with the plankton present, but if anything, we saw a very small positive effect from the ...

The aquarium’s staff has one big hope: that this new and eye-catching display provokes in visitors a deep admiration for zooplankton, or tiny animals, and phytoplankton, and how their place at ...

The annual spring blooms of phytoplankton form the very foundation of marine ecosystems, yet there is still much we do not ...

This explosion in plant matter is followed by a wave of grazing by animal plankton, or zooplankton. These animals are mostly tiny and include the embryonic forms of all kinds of creatures from ...

Find the level at which the plankton are in the water column, and you’ll probably find panfish as well. Zooplankton propel themselves with tiny appendages. Some move in short, quick hops ...