De-icing road salts — even those marketed as environmentally friendly — may harm important freshwater plankton, a new ...

Freshwater inflows play an important role in delivering dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to estuaries. Episodic inputs of DOC may support increased bacterial production. However, the role of DOC in ...

Even plankton refuse to clean up water contaminated by human poop, reveals new research. The tiny, aquatic creatures are known to graze on bacteria in freshwater and saltwater. But they won't ...

C. Arndt, and U. Sommer. 2014. Linking elements to biochemicals: Effects of nutrient supply ratios and growth rates on fatty acid composition of phytoplankton species. J. Phycol. 50: 117–130. doi: ...

Can ancient forms of plankton from over 10,000 years ago help us understand the future of freshwater ecology? Sound like a scifi movie? Actually, these are the realities of real world plankton!