Eukaryotic plankton are an essential and highly diverse component of marine ecosystems. A research team has established their global geographic distribution using DNA data and a probabilistic model.

In a study titled "Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size," an international team of researchers has discovered a negative relationship between the dispersal scales of various ...

DAZZLINGLY unusual, these images of marine creatures, comprising plankton and other organisms, illuminate a journey that happens every day under the cover of darkness – as detailed in the new book, ...

Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to the surface, only to eventually drift down again into the darkness in a perpetual rhythm. Yet, how single-celled phytoplankton, most ...

Some plankton cannot swim, but that doesn’t mean they can’t move. Now scientists have discovered that at least one species migrates towards the Sun by regulating its buoyancy like a submarine 1. The ...

There’s a long-standing conundrum in ecology called the paradox of the plankton. Famously articulated by ecologist George Evelyn Hutchinson in 1961, the paradox explores how odd it is that there are ...

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Ocean warming caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions will prompt many species of marine plankton to seek out new habitats, in some cases as a matter of survival. Researchers expect many ...

Planktonic foraminifera assemblage from Caribbean sediments that provide an accurate picture of the species community before human influence. Each shell is less than one millimeter in size. Michal ...

In the study entitled "Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size", an international team of researchers has discovered a negative relationship between the dispersal scales of various ...