Behind closed doors at the Shedd Aquarium, green, orange and red water bubbles and gurgles in carefully organized jars and vats up to 5 feet high. In this water, microscopic organisms live, thrive and ...

Global warming is directly impacting the ocean’s net primary production (NPP) at the base of the food web as well as the seasonal timing of plankton blooms, according to a new study, published in the ...

The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Observatory inside the Space Environment Simulator thermal vacuum chamber before thermal environmental testing at NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

Thanks to a new algorithm, researchers at the AWI can now use satellite data to determine in which parts of the ocean certain types of phytoplankton are dominant. In addition, they can identify toxic ...

The ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. The driving force comes from tiny plankton that produce organic carbon through photosynthesis, like plants on land. When plankton die or are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study was undertaken to compare two methods commonly used to determine plankton's populations: the Net Plankton Method and the Plankton Centrifuge Method. Water samples for biological analysis were ...