Future assessments of climate change impacts and lake restoration measures should focus on the functioning of the entire food ...

In the vibrant yet fragile waters of the Gulf of Oman, spectacular phytoplankton blooms – visible even from space – unfold in ...

Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating ... On average, the turnover rate of phytoplankton is 10 to 1000 times faster than that of grasslands and forests, thus, less carbon ...

A spectacular burst of color visible from space is drawing global attention—not for its beauty, but for the warning it ...

Ecosystems face a combination of stressors that can interact in complex ways, leading to either synergistic (amplifying) or antagonistic (dampening) effects. It is necessary to understand how these ...

When the sun sets, the ocean comes alive with a whole new world of marine life. Here's what you can expect—and how to prepare ...

Phytoplankton form the foundation of the marine food chain, and climate change is shaking that foundation. And while marine life depends on phytoplankton, sometimes it can create harmful blooms.

Many phytoplankton are microscopic ... which could have big ripple effects for the higher levels of the food web. Warming water because of climate change can have the same effects.

In some places, the underside of the sea ice looks like giant green clouds. These are the 'grass meadows' of Antarctica, made ...

This would weaken the ocean's ability to support life, reducing the amount of carbon that phytoplankton process into food by about 5 billion metric tons per year. These findings suggest that ...