The ocean is teeming with microscopic plants and animals known collectively as plankton. Each individual organism is tiny, yet, taken as a whole, this free- floating community delivers important ...

The changes would come “in the dynamics of phytoplankton bloom formation and termination, in the absorption and sequestration of carbon dioxide by the ocean, and in the composition of exported ...

Under the microscope, plankton becomes an unlikely star as artist Jess Holz documents their movements to highlight both their ...

Abigail McQuatters-Gollop is an Associate Professor in Marine Conservation at the University of Plymouth. She is also the managing director of Ecosystem Approaches, Ltd. Phytoplankton are microscopic ...

There’s a long-standing conundrum in ecology called the paradox of the plankton. Famously articulated by ecologist George Evelyn Hutchinson in 1961, the paradox explores how odd it is that there are ...

Rui Ying received funding from China Scholarship Council for this study. Daniela Schmidt received funding from NERC. She is a member of NERC Science Committee and the council of the Palaeontological ...

In the waters off New England, one of Earth's rarest mammals swims slowly, mouth agape. The North Atlantic right whale filters clouds of tiny reddish zooplankton—called Calanus finmarchicus—from the ...

Ocean warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will prompt many species of marine plankton to seek out new habitats, in some cases as a matter of survival. Researchers expect many ...