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Evolution in the oceans: Long-term study indicates phytoplankton can adapt to ocean acidification

Fossil fuel derived carbon dioxide has a serious impact on global climate but also a disturbing effect on the oceans, know as the other CO2 problem. When CO2 dissolves in seawater it forms carbonic acid and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Identical virus, host populations can prevail for centuries

A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientist, analyzing ancient plankton DNA signatures in sediments of the Black Sea, has found for the first time that the same genetic populations of a virus and its algal host ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Coccolithophore growth and calcification -- a possible role for iron

Lack of sufficient iron may be a significant factor in controlling massive blooms of Emiliania huxleyi, a globally important species of marine algae or phytoplankton, according to research led by researchers at the ...

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created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Newly Discovered Fat Molecule: An Undersea Killer with an Upside

(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemical culprit responsible for the rapid, mysterious death of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean has been found by collaborating scientists at Rutgers University and the Woods Hole ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Researchers explore plankton's shifting role in deep sea carbon storage

The tiny phytoplankton Emiliania huxleyi, invisible to the naked eye, plays an outsized role in drawing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it deep in the seas. But this role may change as ocean water becomes warmer ...

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created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Calcifying microalgae are witnesses of increasing ocean acidification

For the first time researchers have examined on a global scale how calcified algae in their natural habitat react to increasing acidification due to higher marine uptake of carbon dioxide. In the current issue ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Coccolithophore blooms in the southwest Atlantic

A study led by Dr Stuart Painter of the National Oceanography Centre helps explain the formation of huge phytoplankton blooms off the southeast coast of South America during the austral summer (December-January). ...

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created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Iron and biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic

Southampton scientists have demonstrated an unexpected role of iron in regulating biological production in the high-latitude North Atlantic. Their findings have important implications for our understanding of ocean-climate ...

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Chalk one up for coccolithophores

Scientists have feared that gradual acidification of the world's oceans would wreak havoc with organisms that build protective outer shells. But a new finding shows at least three species of coccolithophores ...

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created Apr 28, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 3


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