News articles tagged with 'plankton'
Rowdy residents warn crustaceans away from perilous reefs
— 8 Feb 2011 17:42 | EnvironmentIn the first study to examine the response to noise of a diverse range of crustaceans, an international team led by the University of Bristol found that many families of crustaceans…
Ammonites' last meal: New light on past marine food chains
— 8 Jan 2011 13:00 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists have discovered direct evidence of the diet of one of the most important group of ammonites, distant relatives of squids, octopuses and cuttlefishes. The discovery may bring…
Bering Sea chill yields fatter plankton, pollock diet changes
— 10 Dec 2010 20:03 | EnvironmentDespite a 30-year warming trend, the last three years in the Bering Sea have been the coldest on record. A University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist says that the cold temperatures have…
Microbial mat the size of Greece found on oxygen-starved South American seafloor
— 19 Apr 2010 07:58 | BiologyOcean explorers are puzzling out Nature's purpose behind an astonishing variety of tiny ocean creatures like microbes and zooplankton animals - each perhaps a ticket-holder in life's…
Cosmopolitan eels
— 8 Apr 2010 13:22 | BiologyJoshua Reece became interested in moray eels in 2005 when he was applying to the PhD program at the University of Hawai'i. Instead of taking him on a campus tour, his host, Brian Bowen,…
Acidic clouds nourish world's oceans
— 6 Oct 2009 20:47 | EnvironmentScientists at the University of Leeds have proved that acid in the atmosphere breaks down large particles of iron found in dust into small and extremely soluble iron nanoparticles,…
New temperature reconstruction from Indo-Pacific warm pool
— 28 Aug 2009 06:03 | EnvironmentA new 2,000-year-long reconstruction of sea surface temperatures (SST) from the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) suggests that temperatures in the region may have been as warm during the…
CO2 higher today than last 2.1 million years
— 19 Jun 2009 07:11 | EnvironmentResearchers have reconstructed atmospheric carbon dioxide levels over the past 2.1 million years in the sharpest detail yet, shedding new light on its role in the earth's cycles of…
Geologists demonstrate extent of ancient ice age
— 17 Jun 2009 05:31 | Geology and palaeontologyGeologists at the University of Leicester have shown that an ancient Ice Age, once regarded as a brief 'blip,' in fact lasted for 30 million years…
Lohafex provides new insights on plankton ecology
— 23 Mar 2009 13:58 | EnvironmentThe Indo-German team of scientists from the National Institute of Oceaonography and the Alfred Wegener Institute has returned from its expedition on research vessel Polarstern. The…