Marine biology: Feast and famine on the abyssal plain
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 15:01
in Earth & Climate
Marine biologists have long been puzzled by the fact that marine snow does not supply enough food to support all the animals and microbes living in deep-sea sediments. A new article shows that blooms of algae or animals near the sea surface can deliver as much food to deep-sea organisms as would normally arrive over years or even decades.