Plankton known as diatoms use silicates to build their delicate supporting skeletons. But work by Phoebe Lam during SOFeX suggests that the siliceous plankton of the South Patch were too buoyant ...

Diatoms of the genus Fragilariopsis dominated the community of siliceous plankton sampled along a transect of the Western Antarctic coastal ocean, followed by silicoflagellates. Subsets of these ...

Silica forms the skeleton structures of a variety of aquatic plankton, including many diatoms ... This refers to "siliceous skeletons produced in disconnection from the photosynthesis and the ...