Climate warming and eutrophication have emerged as prominent drivers of global change, posing threats to aquatic ecosystems. Under these ongoing environmental changes, phytoplankton and zooplankton ...

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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Four stations in the Bay of Lake Erie were sampled for quality and quantity of plankton at 10-to 14-day intervals from June until October 1969 ...

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 ...

Despite their microscopic size, plankton are crucial for marine ecosystems. They act as the base of the entire food chain in oceans and freshwater. Plankton are microscopic living organisms that drift ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 1 (2015), pp. 303-317 (15 pages) An increase in loading of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) from terrestrial to freshwater ecosystems has recently been ...

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 ...