Deep-sea animals have been systematically studied for over 100 years, yet scientists are still learning about what many of these animals eat. A new paper by MBARI researchers Anela Choy, Steve Haddock, and Bruce Robison documents ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2017
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In the underground rivers and flooded caves of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where Mayan lore described a fantastical underworld, scientists have found a cryptic world in its own right. Here, methane and the bacteria that feed ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2017
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Phytoplankton, unicellular photosynthetic microbes, play a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and fuel marine food webs. Globally, phytoplankton productivity is regulated by the availability of essential nutrients ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 2, 2017
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Microbes dominate the planet, especially the ocean, and help support the entire marine food web. In a recent report published in Nature Microbiology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) oceanography professor Ed DeLong ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 2017
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Size matters in the carrion world, and so do habitat and temperature.
Ecology
Aug 1, 2017
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A gene controlling cell size has been identified in a microalgal group which underpins a fifth of the world's food chains.
Environment
Jul 25, 2017
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Essential microbiological interactions that keep our oceans stable have been fully revealed for the first time, by researchers at the University of Warwick.
Earth Sciences
Jul 5, 2017
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Experiments with tiny, shelled organisms in the ocean suggest big changes to the global carbon cycle are underway, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2017
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It is human nature to seek to spend the least amount of energy, time and cost on any given task to achieve a desirable result, whether that is working out at the gym, finding the best path to travel to work or buying cereal ...
Engineering
May 3, 2017
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Despite popular metaphors and cartoons depicting straightforward "food chains," ecologists such as Brown University Professor Jon Witman typically doubt that they'll see predators in diverse tropical ecosystems have meaningful ...
Ecology
May 1, 2017
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