An interdisciplinary team led by Bigelow Laboratory researchers is working to better model how zooplankton transport carbon ...

As phytoplankton produce their own food, zooplankton rely on them to thrive. Swarms of these tiny animal plankton eat phytoplankton, just like how most smaller land animals feed on plants on land.

World of Plankton, an interactive educational game developed by faculty and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been permanently installed at the ECHO Leahy Center for Lake ...

“Zooplankton are eating and pooping machines,” Sharma says. “When you slice apart their poop, you see the remains of all these phytoplankton that have not been digested.” ...

Both plankton play a huge role in keeping our ocean ecosystem healthy. Most zooplankton sink towards the bottom of the ocean during the day, and at night they migrate towards the surface and feed ...

Sea temperatures also stay warm for longer, pushing autumn plankton blooms until later in the year. Not all phytoplankton and zooplankton species are responding the same way to climate change.

Plankton form the base of marine and freshwater food webs. They consist of phytoplankton (plants) and zooplankton (animals). Their name derives from the Greek word for “drifter”, since they ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...

Aubrey Trapp, Jan Heuschele, Erik Selander, Eavesdropping on plankton—can zooplankton monitoring improve forecasting of biotoxins from harmful algae blooms?, Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 9 ...

Ohman said there has been no drop in overall zooplankton populations in the northeast Pacific Ocean, and a rise in phytoplankton. The Continuous Plankton Record Survey works with a large network ...