The dynamics of individual phytoplankton species are often more variable than predicted for their functional groups. This observation is poorly understood in highly perturbed coastal systems. Trends ...

Melissa DuBose casts a net out into the sea on a crisp winter morning, from a wooden pier near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. “I come out here every week,” she says. She reels in her net to ...

Warming Seas Threaten Key Phytoplankton Species That Fuels the Food Web, Study Finds SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on ...

A striking image of a massive bloom of phytoplankton—microscopic plant-like organisms that often float near the surface of the ocean—has been captured from space in the Gulf of Maine. Coccolithophores ...

Phytoplankton, tiny plant-like organisms in the ocean, are incredibly important for life on Earth. They're a major food ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic ...