Posts Tagged ‘plankton’
10 million viruses in one drop of seawater
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Viruses fill the ocean and have a significant effect on ocean biology, according to a new study that reveals striking recurring patterns of marine virioplankton dynamics in the open sea. Continue…
Monday, August 15, 2011 13:06 - 1 Comment
Science & Technology - May 9, 2011 11:03 - 0 Comments
Pupfish evolution on fast-forward
UC DAVIS (US) — A pupfish that survives by biting the scales off its underwater neighbors is evolving up to 130 times faster than other pupfish species. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 18, 2011 9:46 - 1 Comment
How to emerge as evolution’s top gun
CARDIFF U. (UK) — Marine plankton are offering new insight into the winners and losers of a 65 million year long evolutionary race to the finish. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jul 20, 2010 9:16 - 0 Comments
Small fish living it up in dead zone waters
PENN STATE (US)—A small fish is unabashedly exploiting an oxygen-depleted area off the coast of southwest Africa and putting the once ecologically dead-end jellyfish back into the food cycle, according to an international team of scientists. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 17, 2009 12:27 - 1 Comment
Arctic rivers as climate change forecasters
TEXAS A&M (US)—Scientists may be able to gauge the effects of climate change in the polar regions by monitoring bacterial communities in six large Arctic rivers, new research shows. (more…)
