phytoplankton

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• EarthTalk: Plankton in the oceans

  
  Blast: Boston's Online Magazine — Authority: 595
  As the lowest link on the marine food chain, plankton—that tiny aquatic plant, animal and bacterial matter floating throughout the world’s oceans—is a vital building block for life on Earth. Besides serving as a primary food source for many fish and whales, plankton plays a crucial role in mitigating global ...
  1 week ago

• Warmer Seas Blocking Nature’s Carbon Pump

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 593
  Diatoms are one of the most common types of phytoplankton. Climate change isn’t just warming the atmosphere, it’s also warming the ocean’s surface and deeper levels of the water column. This is known as the pelagic ocean (the “pelagic zone” is any part of the water column other than that at the sea floor) ...
  1 week ago

• Effects of carbon dioxide on the coccolithophorid Pleurochrysis carterae in incubation experiments

  
  Ocean acidification — Authority: 429
  Production (abundance and biomass) and net calcification rates of the coccolithophorid Pleurochrysis carterae under different partial pressures of CO 2 (pCO 2 ) were examined using short (15, 24 and 39 h), long (7 d) and dark (7 d) incubation experiments. Short incubations were conducted at ambient, 500 and 820 ppm ...
  3 weeks ago

• Breast Cancer, Plankton, Tellurides

  
  Sciencebase Science Blog — Authority: 119
  My latest contributions to SpectroscopyNOW.com and my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com are now live: Sweetening breast cancer risk – Experimental and epidemiological evidence previously suggested that circulating glucose and insulin may play a role in the emergence of breast cancer. Now a statistical ...
  3 weeks ago

• Arctic & Antarctic: Science and technology

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 136
  Arctic to be ice-free in summer in 20 years: scientist LONDON (Reuters) - Global warming will leave the Arctic Ocean ice-free during the summer within 20 years, raising sea levels and harming wildlife such as seals and polar bears, a leading British polar scientist said on Thursday. Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean ...
  4 weeks ago

• Effect of CO2 on the properties and sinking velocity of aggregates of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi

  
  Ocean acidification — Authority: 429
  Coccolithophores play an important role in organic matter export due to their production of the mineral calcite that can act as ballast. Recent studies indicated that calcification in coccolithophores may be affected by changes in seawater carbonate chemistry. We investigated the influence of CO 2 on the aggregation ...
  4 weeks ago

• ‘Tiny ammonia eaters’ play more central role in Earth’s ecology than previously believed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, October 3 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have found that a minute organism can digest ammonia, which suggests that it plays a more central role in the planet’s ecology than previously suspected. A few years ago, University of Washington researchers cultured a tiny organism from the bottom of a ...
  6 weeks ago

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