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Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton: - That portion of the plankton community comprised of tiny plants; e.g. algae, diatoms. [Environmental Protection Agency] News archive for Phytoplankton:: |
United Press International...industry -- to phytoplankton, barely visible to the naked eye but no less important to the massive generation of fixed carbon in our marine ecosystems.
2 students win DuPont ’Clear into the Future’ fellowships - 04 Aug 2008
University of Delaware,...“Because of nutrients and carbon from land runoff, waste water treatment and other private and public inputs, you get blooms of phytoplankton.
The hottest water on Earth found in the Atlantic Ocean.. - 04 Aug 2008
Global Surf NewsIron is essential for the growth of all phytoplankton. Koschinsky estimates up to half the manganese and one tenth of the iron found in the oceans could
This Is The Story of Carbon... - 04 Aug 2008
ScienceBlogsIn the second, nutrients transported by river out sea enhance phytoplankton production. The recent study documents that the Amazon River plume supports N2
Coastal changes in the Namib-Naukluft Park - 04 Aug 2008
Flamingo,These are caused by the anaerobic decay of organic material, phytoplankton, that has fallen to the seabed and been covered by a layer of mud.
Urban critters: Pacific littleneck clam - Aug 2, 2008
Vancouver Sun,It gathers food by ingesting water and filtering it for phytoplankton, algae and other single-celled marine organisms. Rock crabs, sea stars, various fish
Arctic voyage in search of climate answers - Jul 23, 2008
BBC News,OK, phytoplankton might not be the first thing you think of when you think of the Arctic - that's probably ice…but this microscopic sea life is vital,
Dust Storms In Sahara Desert Sustain Life In Atlantic Ocean - Jul 18, 2008
Science Daily (press release)The dust fertilises the North Atlantic and allows phytoplankton to use organic phosphorous, but it doesn’t reach the southern regions and so without enough
Weather Eye: threats to the production of oil - Jul 27, 2008
Times Online,Phytoplankton are also dragged up to the surface where they bloom and give sea creatures a big feed. Tropical storms also help to reduce the greenhouse
Interview: Extreme virus hunter - Jul 24, 2008
New Scientist (subscription),They probably infect everything from very basic cells like phytoplankton, right up to whales and polar bears. I'm particularly interested in the viruses
Viruses in Arctic Ocean likely to decrease carbon sink efficiency - Jul 30, 2008
environmentalresearchweb (subscription),..."Grazing [of phytoplankton] has been studied for a long, long time but we don’t know much about viruses which might be equally significant for controlling
NASA MODIS Image of the Day: July 8, 2008 - Phytoplankton Bloom ... - Jul 8, 2008
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Antarctic Peninsula is changing fast - Jul 11, 2008
Times of India,The changes the researchers see begin at the base of the food web, with phytoplankton - tiny photosynthetic organisms that, in Antarctica, are evolved to
Summer Storms Could Mean More Dead Zones - Jul 11, 2008
PhysOrg.com,Reds and oranges represent high concentrations of phytoplankton and river sediment.Credit: Goddard SVS (PhysOrg.com) -- It's summertime and people are
Fertile ground for exploitation - Jul 8, 2008
guardian.co.uk,Phytoplankton (microscopic marine plants) at or near the ocean's surface convert CO2 into organic matter and oxygen, and when they die carry small amounts
Study: volcanoes blamed for ancient extinction in ocean - Jul 16, 2008
Xinhua,One is that the volcanoes spewed out metal-rich fluids that provided food for the phytoplankton in the upper level of the ocean. The phytoplankton stored up
Death in the deep: Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction - Jul 16, 2008
AFPTiny plantlife on the sea surface, called phytoplankton, gorged on the food, and storing up carbon as they grew. They then sank to the sea floor and decayed
Scientists urge caution with sea fertilizing - Jul 11, 2008
Newport News Times,...“We already know that adding iron to the ocean usually alters the species composition of the phytoplankton community,� he added. “It seems likely this would
Windswept desert dust helps oceanic plants - Jul 18, 2008
United Press InternationalScientists mapped the distribution of nutrients, investigating how organisms such as phytoplankton are sustained in ocean areas with low nutrient levels,
Duststorm aids Atlantic life - Jul 21, 2008
Howrah News Service,Scientists also mapped the distribution of nutrients including phosphorus and nitrogen and investigated how organisms such as phytoplankton are sustained in
Shell Oil funds "open source" geoengineering project to fight ... - Jul 20, 2008
Mongabay.comIt argued that artificial iron fertilization would trigger massive blooms of phytoplankton that would absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help
Marine Ecosystem Response to "Ocean Acidification" Due to ... - Jul 15, 2008
CO2 Science Magazine,Vogt et al. report that they detected no significant phytoplankton species shifts between treatments, and that "the ecosystem composition, bacterial and
Warming waters pose threats to Alaska salmon, could reorder marine ... - Jul 31, 2008
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner,The productivity of the ocean and marine species depends on the smallest organisms — the phytoplankton and zooplankton that appear each year in massive
Bay plume gets grim report - Jul 13, 2008
The Age,...areas of the bay not monitored by the port could cut light and sustenance to organisms at the bottom of the food chain: phytoplankton and micro-algae.
Ecological Status Of Spain's Mar Menor Lagoon Will Deteriorate As ... - Jul 30, 2008
Science Daily (press release)...“If climate change predictions come true, the current state of the Mar Menor lagoon could collapse due to proliferations of phytoplankton and floating
One-Size-Fits-All Environmental Policies May Not Fit - Jul 15, 2008
Dakota Voice,There are some scientists who believe that seeding the ocean with iron will improve phytoplankton blooms and thereby increase carbon absorption in response
Mountains give us summit to live for - Jul 28, 2008
Metro,As these giant peaks eroded, they released nutrients into the oceans stimulating the growth of oxygen-producing phytoplankton and bacteria.
Red Tide Closes More Shellfish Areas - Jul 16, 2008
Ellsworth American,BLUE HILL — An increase in the level of the phytoplankton that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) has forced the Department of Marine Resources to
"Mad Men" & McCain's Racism, Fresh Hope for Fresh Water, Good ... - Aug 2, 2008
American Chronicle,Calcified bodies of phytoplankton sink to the floor of the oceans when they die (although a great many are added to the food chain when they are eaten,
Solving climate change - Jul 15, 2008
The National,Prof Jones believes the answer lies in making the oceans more nutrient-rich, which would encourage the growth of phytoplankton, which absorb CO2.
The Beginning of the Oregon Coast's Wacky X-Files - Jul 8, 2008
Beach Connection,Years later, while researching such coastal oddities, I discover it's bioluminescent phytoplankton that glows. It's slightly rare in these parts,
STUDYING MINUTE SEA CREATURES ALL SUMMER - Jul 25, 2008
Mearns Today,They feed on Phytoplankton at the surface of the water at night, and then sink to safer depths during the day. As well as being important to fish,
Waterflea bloom may help young alewives, perch - Jul 9, 2008
Ludington Daily News,...“The waterfleas, the overpopulation, is due to all those nutrients being there and getting a plume of phytoplankton,� Rozich said.
Professor: Moderately Fertilizing Ocean May Slow Global Warming - Jul 10, 2008
Mountain Mail,Phytoplankton consume iron, but the Southern Ocean lacks enough iron for the microorganisms to flourish. The plankton produces dimethyl sulfide,
Rivers and Carbon - Jul 22, 2008
Technocrat.net,...influences the rate of certain phytoplankton growth that leads to massive amounts of carbon sequestration as these organisms die and sink to the bottom,
From Clouds to Clams - Jul 14, 2008
LiveScience.com,Upon arrival, tiny plants called phytoplankton feed off the nutrients in these fertilizers. But under certain conditions, they can remove enough oxygen from
Chill Factor - Jul 23, 2008
Silicon Valley's Metro,Phytoplankton, microscopic organisms that form the base of the marine food chain, don't put on much of a show, but their abundance this year has drawn huge
An endless bummer: Air is hot; surf is not - Aug 3, 2008
Philadelphia Inquirer,It has been a great year for green phytoplankton in the cool Jersey surf, Glenn said. In turn, those millions of microorganisms have inhibited warming by
Three People Recover From Red Tide Poisoning - Jul 8, 2008
WCSH-TV,Couture explains that red tide is a naturally occurring phytoplankton that blooms in the open ocean, and then washes inshore with the wind, tide,
A Response to Russ of Planktos - Jul 28, 2008
ScienceBlogsNo one doubts that iron fertilization will lead to a phytoplankton bloom. But the ability of this process to sequester carbon in at large spatial and
These visitors are never on welcome list - Aug 2, 2008
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,Even if there were such places, zebra mussels filter so much water each day, removing so much phytoplankton in the process, that in lakes where they
Two-Hour Discovery Tours Are Based at Metro Beach - Jul 27, 2008
RedOrbit,The passengers learned the 5000 types of plankton fit into two groups: the animal kind, or zooplankton, and the seaweed kind, or phytoplankton.
Our Bay: The Dead Zone - Aug 1, 2008
Annapolis Capital,Plant life, namely algae or phytoplankton, thrive on the nutrients. But the blooms of algae block light from reaching underwater grasses.
Eye to beak with a red-footed boobie! - Jul 28, 2008
Christian Science Monitor,..."In the evenings on the dock, we turn on the lights to attract phytoplankton," says Ms. Gentille, referring to free-swimming microscopic ocean plants that
US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute announces new ... - Jul 7, 2008
innovations report,Nanoflagellates, a group of marine microbes, prey on other microbes, such as bacteria and phytoplankton, for survival. These predatory protists play a
New source of ocean methane discovered - Aug 1, 2008
Environmental Expert (press release),They are derived from a range of organic matter including marine phytoplankton. In the laboratory, bacteria grown on methylphosphonate can produce methane.
A cool spectacle - Jul 28, 2008
Sydney Morning Herald,..."sea angels" (their proper name is "clione") and phytoplankton called "ice algae" that live under the drift ice and at the bottom of the food chain,
When it’s your day, you can’t do wrong - Jul 31, 2008
Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise,It is called a “bryazoan� - a multi-celled colony of creatures that attach themselves to a limb or other structure and feed on phytoplankton and zooplankton
Pribilof students go deeper with underwater robotics - Jul 31, 2008
Dutch Harbor Fisherman,Their subjects included phytoplankton and mammals, benthic food webs and king crab ecology. They studied the stomach contents of halibut caught by local
NASA Filmmaker Debuts 'Plight Of The Puffins' - Jul 18, 2008
RedOrbit,One of the mission’s findings has been evidence that increased sea surface temperatures result in lower amounts of marine phytoplankton.
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