Researchers from Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and the U.S. have reconstructed the composition of phytoplankton ...

The team detected unmistakable signs that the food web is compromised: “Their sampling suggested plankton levels may have fallen by 90% in parts of the Atlantic.” (Source: Expert: Warmer Seas ...

Alpine lakes are among the most harsh aquatic environments on Earth. Located at high elevation, they are exposed to intense ...

The longest sampling trawl of tiny ocean creatures called plankton is under way across the Pacific, where little is known about these critters that make up the base of the ocean's food web.

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 ...

The scientists developed a mixotrophic model of the global ocean food web, at the scale of marine plankton, in which they gave each plankton class the ability to both photosynthesize and consume ...

"We showed that seasonal changes in plankton food web pathways drive variability in plankton fatty acid composition," said David Costalago, lead author of the study, and, at the time of the study ...

Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain, study says The team tracked individual plankton them from birth to death and exposed them to various concentrations of sodium chloride (rock ...