Meet Sacculina carcini – a barnacle that makes a living as a real-life body-snatcher of crabs. Unlike most barnacles that are happy to simply stick themselves to a rock and filter food from the water, Sacculina and its ...
Plants & Animals
May 30, 2014
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Picture a young man seated on the deck of an old wooden sailing ship, a whaling vessel made of white oak, yellow pine and hemlock, built in 1841, the last of its kind. He is reading—what else?—"Moby Dick."
Ecology
Apr 25, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers have uncovered a previously unforeseen interaction between the sexes which reveals that offspring survival is affected by chemical signals emitted from the females' eggs.
Plants & Animals
Apr 16, 2014
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Foreign species that are devastating water ecosystems could be "hitchhiking" around Britain on canoeists' and anglers' kit, according to a new study.
Ecology
Apr 9, 2014
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Anyone that has spent time at a seaside pier has witnessed the destruction barnacles wreak on boat hulls. But biofouling animals are not limited to marine environments. A new paper published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology ...
Ecology
Apr 2, 2014
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A new discovery made at the University of Oslo, Norway, can make it far easier to check whether mussels are poisonous.
Other
Mar 7, 2014
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Researchers at Grand Valley State University's Annis Water Resources Institute are learning more about the impact invasive zebra mussels and native aquatic insect larvae have on the risk of algae blooms in two West Michigan ...
Environment
Feb 12, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Declines of the food resources that feed lake organisms are likely causing dramatic changes in the Great Lakes, according to a new study.
Environment
Dec 13, 2013
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The earliest possible detection of quagga and zebra mussels has long been a goal of biologists seeking to discover their presence in water bodies. The Bureau of Reclamation's Detection Laboratory has released two reports ...
Ecology
Oct 31, 2013
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While most freshwater mussels react stressfully and weaken when exposed to the toxins in blue-green algae in their water environment, the little zebra mussel is rather indifferent. It is not affected by the toxins, and this ...
Ecology
Oct 3, 2013
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