T he basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton, responds to heat waves much differently than to constantly elevated temperatures. This has been found by the first targeted ...

She wonders, too, whether Arctic phytoplankton’s ability to ride out near-absolute darkness might be shared by some algae in the colder, darker waters of the deep sea. If she’s right ...

“Arctic Station has been here for more than ... Martin Nielsen transfers water samples filled with phytoplankton and zooplankton harvested from his field site, a section of open ocean off ...

It's spring, the sun is shining and something is about to happen with the plankton in the cold waters of the Arctic Ocean. Long bright days and rising temperatures have awakened the phytoplankton.

UD doctoral student Tianyu Zhou is pictured on the right using a shovel to remove snow that covers the sea ice during a ...

For Arrigo and his team, it was also a rare opportunity to study the Arctic marine ecosystem firsthand ... had hit an unexpectedly large phytoplankton hotspot in the Chukchi Sea, just off the Bering ...

Phytoplankton are changing the “physical property of the ... A positive feedback process is already known to occur in the Arctic, as the darker-hued ocean water absorbs more sun than the ...

The Arctic is changing. Fast ... As light trickles through the ice, a home is created for microscopic algae and plankton, which feed fish and whales, and, in turn, seals, beluga whales and ...

It is common knowledge that Arctic cleanup work is challenging and expensive. Long distances, hard-to-access areas, scattered ...

A six-year investigation found that eukaryotic phytoplankton decline under high CO 2 conditions, while cyanobacteria remain unaffected. Nutrient availability, particularly nitrogen, influenced ...

TASS/. A holographic camera to examine plankton in the habitat was installed on an ice floe in the Arctic, the Tomsk State University's press service told TASS, adding the camera would monitor and ...