Plankton live in the top few metres of ocean. These algae (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) are transported by ocean currents as they do not actively swim. Some data suggest that current ...

Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems ... locking that carbon out of the atmosphere for eons. Plankton are hardly the only ...

Plankton are a diverse group of marine organisms ... Other species have moved to deeper parts of the ocean, since sea surface temperatures are getting warmer. There have still been declines of about ...

This massive inflation allows the plankton to journey up to 200 meters toward the ocean's surface to capture ... It's turning out that there are four or five different tricks all co-evolving ...

Often invisible to the naked eye, these tiny invertebrates form the hidden backbone of ocean ecosystems ... locking that carbon out of the atmosphere for eons. Plankton are hardly the only ...

It's the northern lights of the ocean ... plankton when she was on a night dive in Thailand about 15 years ago, and at the time had no idea it could be seen much closer to home. When she found out ...

The research, led by the University of Bristol and published in Nature, compares for the first time how tiny ocean organisms called plankton responded ... potentially wiping out the precious ...

The rising CO 2 levels and ocean acidification also reduce the formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) from which foraminifera build their shells. Since the empty shells of deceased plankton sink ...

Phytoplankton ... says Blair Greenan of the Ocean Monitoring and Observation Section of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. While researchers routinely go out on research ships to collect ...