... dioxide and other greenhouse gases from the environment intensifies, a team of scientists has identified a process by which marine organisms influence the amount of atmospheric carbon the sea absorbs.
... than 4,000 years old, the deep-water black coral is the oldest living skeletal-accreting marine organism known.
"And to the best of our knowledge, the oldest colonial organism yet ...
... land, ocean, and freshwater animals to tolerate environmental stress. These insights into the biology of marine organisms didn't come from observational studies; they were revealed by deciphering and ...
... calcium carbonate structures to dissolve. Potts agrees that dissolving shells will certainly be a problem for many marine organisms, but he thinks the disruptions will run much deeper.
"It's not ...
... SCAR-MarBIN makes it possible to instantly download data and map the occurrence and abundance of polar marine organisms.
Huw Griffiths of the British Antarctic Survey said:
"SCAR-MarBIN is a unique ...
... will help researchers better understand how Micromonas interacts with its environment and with other marine organisms.
According to Worden, "One of our main findings is that some genes that were ...
... ), which worked on closing gaps in the assembly.
Even though the flavobacteria sequenced are marine organisms, Stepanauskas pointed out that the single cell sequencing approach can be applied to ...
... role in the marine carbon cycle. Marine biologists report that dead bodies of the marine organism Pyrosoma atlanticum may be transporting much more carbon to the seafloor than phytoplankton or other ...
... aquaculture, coral reef biodiversity and conservation, and marine biotechnology, including the discovery of chemicals from marine organisms in the Red Sea that might have potential as pharmaceuticals.
... renowned journal 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) and the HYAX Lake Ecosystem Laboratory in Aix-en-Provence ( ...
... to come up with improved manufacturing routes. We are taking advantage of the natural diversity of marine organisms that has arisen through evolution in different environments and coupling that with ...
... level is rising and species are conquering new habitats. The warming of the world climate has many consequences. Researchers now report that climate change influences the size of aquatic organisms.
... in the Laboratoire d'Océanographie at Villefranche, France, have just demonstrated that key marine organisms, such as deep-water corals and pteropods (shelled pelagic mollusks) will be profoundly ...
... in the ocean. Roughly a decade ago scientists discovered a rare form of organic phosphorus in marine organic matter. Not only were the researchers surprised to find this form of phosphorus, called ...
... of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food. The new study is led by Lothar ...
