In nature, however, the salinity varies widely among different species of diatoms—from 0 (diatoms can exist for some time even in distilled water) to more than 150‰, when salt deposition ...

The Diatom Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History houses a research collection of diatoms that is worldwide in scope, with particular strengthes in North America, Asia, and ...

We have suggested that future warming climate scenarios will result in a shift in the phytoplankton community in the central ocean gyres towards smaller cells, and that under such conditions ...