Due to the covariation between temperature and resource availability in the surface ocean, a correct assessment of resource supply is crucial to determine if temperature has a direct effect on ...

Plankton are also threatened by microplastics—billions of tiny bits of plastic, less than five millimeters in size, which have spread into virtually every part of the ocean, from the deepest sea ...

As plankton is a collection of different types of organisms it also varies both in appearance and size. They can be microscopic and as small as 2 micrometres. That means that it’s impossible to ...

Depending on the density, size, and shape of the particulate matter and local ... an indirect measure of the presence or ...

The 2018 eruption of Kilauea on Hawaii island sparked the largest open-ocean phytoplankton bloom ever recorded in the North ...

Photosynthetic rates vary across phytoplankton taxa, and in particular cell size constrains the efficiency of converting absorbed light into fixed carbon. This study therefore aimed to examine the ...

The team looked at the size structure of plankton directly. The relative abundance of small and large organisms provides a handy, direct measure of how efficiently the food web transmits energy from ...

Depending on the density, size, and shape of the particulate matter ... an indirect measure of the presence or absence of phytoplankton, which revealed a massive bloom near the dateline.