we observed the same lack of relation between phytoplankton diversity and zooplankton diversity (Fig. 1d). That is, marine pelagic environments with a high plant diversity do not necessarily have ...

Despite their microscopic size, plankton are crucial for marine ecosystems. They act as the base of the entire food chain in ...

Researchers find that tiny ocean plants react to nutrient and temperature shifts. In nutrient-poor zones, efficient ...

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants floating around in marine and aquatic ecosystems that produce 50-80% of the world’s oxygen. Besides providing food for countless other organisms, they are so ...

On one side there are the autotrophs, such as plants, which mostly use photosynthesis ... whereas others can integrate photosynthesizing phytoplankton into their own bodies. The mixotrophs are ...

Over 88% of proteins encoded by these viral genomes are entirely novel, revealing a vast and unexplored genetic reservoir in ...

But what scientists have assumed for many years to be plant plankton (phytoplankton) may actually be voracious predators. In lakes, plankton prey on single-celled bacteria that are in turn ...

Plankton also has an environmental super-power. Like plants on land, phytoplankton takes in carbon dioxide and produces oxygen. In fact, these tiny organisms provide half of the oxygen that we ...

NEWSLETTER SIGN UP The new technique begins with large blooms of microscopic plants called phytoplankton. These phytoplankton blooms remove roughly 150 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the ...

URI researchers say that in the last 50 years, levels of phytoplankton – tiny plants that are the foundation of the marine food chain – are down by 50% in Narragansett Bay. Through ...