The reductions in beta diversity are unlikely to be a result of mass effects and only partly explained by indirect dispersal-mediated interactions with phytoplankton and zooplankton. Our results ...

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean.

While cows graze grass on land, zooplankton, tiny marine animals, eat phytoplankton. Zooplankton include one of Earth's most abundant animals, the copepod: a microscopic crustacean ranging in size ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...

Why these invisible organisms generate a significant portion of oxygen, absorb vast amounts of carbon, and purify water ...

Scientists were recently surprised to find that the natural community of zooplankton — tiny, aquatic animals known to graze on bacteria — present in freshwater and saltwater do not clean water ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

while the plankton expedite the process with their feces, which also sink faster due to the added clay. The diel vertical migration of zooplankton—where these tiny creatures ascend to the ...

Some of these ecosystems are under threat; others remain unexplored. Understanding how key players such as whales, plankton, seagrasses and other forms of sea life interact sheds light on Earth ...

Benjamin Van Mooy and his team found a relationship between plankton, omega-3 fatty acids and warming ocean waters.