Human and natural activity are to blame for the excess growth of phytoplankton causing "Dead Zones" of aquatic life. Credit: NASA/GSFC
... a year before being used by plankton. But oceanographers find phytoplankton living and growing rather well in the Sargasso ... co-authors studied the more complex eukaryotic phytoplankton in the Sargasso Sea they found "this whole other class of substitute ...
... of this biochemical strategy, the authors compared the response of the phytoplankton communities in different ocean basins that experience ... to synthesize substitute lipids appears to be restricted to the phytoplankton; heterotrophic bacteria and other organisms must have a different ...
... Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton – the bottom of the Antarctic food chain – is decreasing ... showing for the first time that there is an ongoing change on phytoplankton concentration and composition along the western shelf ...
Oceanographers describe a novel strategy for phytoplankton growth in the vast nutrient-poor habitats of tropical and subtropical seas.
... Antarctic Peninsula becomes warmer and more humid, phytoplankton - the bottom of the Antarctic food chain - is decreasing ... -Hugo and Oscar Schofield report that levels of phytoplankton off the western Antarctic Peninsula have decreased ...
... the massive blooms of microscopic marine algae – phytoplankton – in the seas around Madagascar and its effect on the biogeochemistry ... , the 2005 bloom was dominated by a diatom – a type of phytoplankton – the cells of which play host to another nitrogen ...
... water from deeper levels. This dilutes the concentration of phytoplankton and zooplankton, making it more difficult for the zooplankton to find ... these other, complex processes are also at work, including the dilution of phytoplankton and the ultimate control of them by aggressive zooplankton ...
... more stratified, leading to increasing nutrient limitation and phytoplankton declines. The scientists also found that large-scale climate ... , and ultimately support all of our fisheries. An ocean with less phytoplankton will function differently, and this has to be accounted for in our management efforts ...
Changes in ocean color caused by phytoplankton could lead to more tropical storms.
... productivity event of unprecedented magnitude"—the largest phytoplankton bloom detected in the region since ocean ... . But although the volcanic ash fueled such a massive phytoplankton bloom, it resulted in only a "modest" uptake of atmospheric ...
... scarce in many oceanic regions. "We are interested in the adaptations of phytoplankton living in regions where nutrients are in short ... species representative of a very important group of phytoplankton called diatoms. They found that when the diatoms were starved of phosphorus ...
... of a critical phenomenon that occurs during the spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic that feeds the deep ...
... , such as corals, clams and snails, but also micron size phytoplankton are affected by ocean acidification. The potential for organisms ...
... in the most productive ocean regions. It became evident that there was a phytoplankton bloom of astonishing magnitude happening under ... up from the abyss and refreshes the supply of nutrients available to phytoplankton growing near the surface. "Without a doubt ...
