Microbial species, as consumers and producers of major greenhouse gases and the dominant primary producers in the sea, have central relevance to global climate change. Phytoplankton growth rates ...

Researchers have discovered significant changes in the growth patterns of deep-living phytoplankton due to global warming, as ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 58, No. 5 (2013), pp. 1667-1679 (13 pages) We investigated the link between iron (Fe) limitation and intracellular dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) concentration in ...

In the sunlit surface layer of oceans Like land plants and seagrasses, microscopic marine algae known as phytoplankton also feed on CO2 and use photosynthesis to produce energy. Seagrasses and ...

Scientists have compared data from the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago, and modern records to see what happened to ...

Organism gives sea its distinctive smell and promotes creation of clouds, thereby playing a significant role in global ...

They have a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. Phytoplankton also form the foundation of marine food webs. They provide ...

The spectacle, often caused by a bloom of bioluminescent phytoplankton ... but can also occur in some terrestrial and freshwater species. It’s important to note, however, that bioluminescence ...

It is thought to feed on undersea phytoplankton after filtering it ... His findings on the new species were carried in English on the online edition of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology.

To explore this, Roth started by testing the impact of heat waves and an everyday antibiotic on a single species of phytoplankton. She then moved to more complex experiments with a mixed-species ...