News tagged with marine communities

Uncovering the secret lives of fish in marine national parks

In a research partnership between Deakin University and Parks Victoria, marine scientists have captured rare video footage of fish and other marine creatures living on the seafloor off western Victoria.

Biology / Ecology

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Protein analysis investigates marine worm community

(Phys.org) -- Techniques used by researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to analyze a simple marine worm and its resident bacteria could accelerate efforts to understand more ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemical microgradients accelerate coral death at the Great Barrier Reef

Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology along with Australian colleagues, have examined corals from the Great Barrier Reef affected by the Black Band Disease and identified the critical ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Construction starts on new marine research vessel

Construction of Australia's new $120 million Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator has started in Singapore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hidden Baja undersea park is the world's most robust marine reserve

A thriving undersea wildlife park tucked away near the southern tip of Mexico's Baja peninsula has proven to be the world's most robust marine reserve in the world, according to a new study led by researchers ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mediterranean Sea invaded by alien species

More than 900 new alien species have been encountered in the coastal environments of the eastern Mediterranean Sea in recent decades, including the poisonous pufferfish. The invasion of alien species has had ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study shows deepwater oil plume in Gulf degraded by microbes

In the aftermath of the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a dispersed oil plume was formed at a depth between 3,600 and 4,000 feet and extending some 10 miles out from ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Scientists need to be more proactive, effective at public communication: report

Scientists are a valuable and trusted source of information, researchers say in a recent report, but too often do an inadequate job of bringing that information to those who need it in a factual, non-technical, credible and ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 21, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists find community involvement, not only enforcement, drives success of marine reserves

In one of the most comprehensive global studies of marine reserves, a team of natural and social scientists from the University of Rhode Island and other institutions has found that community involvement is among the most ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Global warming threatens Antarctic sea life

Climate change is about to cause a major upheaval in the shallow marine waters of Antarctica. Predatory crabs are poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt the primeval marine communities.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (25) | comments 39

Trees won't stop tsunamis, scientists warn

Claims that coastal tree barriers can halt the might of a tsunami are false and dangerous, a team of international marine scientists said today.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 26, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 5