Diatoms can vary in size and shape a great deal, ranging from 2 micrometers across, or roughly 35 times smaller than the width of a human hair, to 200 micrometers across, or roughly three times larger ...

The Diatom Section of the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History houses a research collection of diatoms that is worldwide in scope, with particular strengthes in North America, Asia, and ...

As researchers in paleolimnology, the historical study of freshwater sediments, we examine the sediments that settles at the ...

Because diatom cell walls are comprised of opaline silica—essentially, glass—they remain preserved in sediments even after their organic components have decomposed. The shape of diatom cell ...

Blooms of diatoms—microscopic, photosynthetic algae—were alive and well beneath (and within) the lake's ice cover. "Some of the main winter-spring diatom bloom formers, like Aulacoseira ...

We also suggested that a warming climate will simultaneously enhance the productivity of large phytoplankton, such as diatoms, in coastal regions, owing to increased wind-driven upwelling 1.

We show that the red-to-blue band ratio of GSCM-derived aph(670)/aph(440) can be associated with diatom fraction in Chesapeake Bay. Further, the spatial-temporal patterns shown in the ...

There are several tens of thousands species, most of which are 0.1 millimeter or smaller and come in shapes such as circles, triangles and rugby balls. Diatoms can be arranged and placed together ...

Although the shape and structure of the frustule vary from one diatom species to another, the frustule itself is a rather ...