Plankton have divergent responses to iron shortage
Thursday, August 13, 2015 - 08:20
in Earth & Climate
Marine phytoplankton have been prodded, poked, sampled and studied by generations of scientists, but the ocean-dwelling organisms still have the power to surprise. A team headed by UCI oceanographer Katherine Mackey has discovered striking differences in the way coastal and mid-ocean phytoplankton called Synechococci adapt to the abundance or lack of certain nutrients in their environments.