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Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and ...

Studies were conducted to quantify how the size distribution of plankton affects ecological transfer efficiency in the pelagic food web. Simultaneous measurements of phytoplankton and zooplankton size ...

Fish stocks in the North Atlantic could halve due to a "hidden vulnerability" involving the oceans' plankton, a study has found, The new research published in Nature Communications found that when ...

Direct measurements of the capture efficiency of planktonic cells by seven solitary ascidians were made in situ and in the laboratory and compared with the capture efficiency of polystyrene ...

In a study titled "Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size," an international team of researchers has discovered a negative relationship between the dispersal scales of various ...

Many plankton journey from the cold, dark depths of our oceans to the surface, only to eventually drift down again into the darkness in a perpetual rhythm. Yet, how single-celled phytoplankton, most ...

A new international study found that the size of plankton, and the strength and direction of currents, are key to how they are dispersed in the ocean -- much more so than physical conditions including ...

Researchers, including Dr Angus Atkinson of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Dr Axel Rossberg of Queen Mary University of London, have discovered a hidden amplifying mechanism within the ocean's ...

In the study entitled "Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size", an international team of researchers has discovered a negative relationship between the dispersal scales of various ...