New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as ...

While phytoplankton are critical to the iconic Antarctic marine food web and to the biological carbon pump, long-term shifts in their community composition are poorly understood.

Phytoplankton—microscopic algae that form the base of ocean food webs—have long been viewed as transient players in the global carbon cycle: They bloom, die, and the carbon they contain is ...

When iron is resupplied, phytoplankton reconnect their internal light-harvesting systems, improving their efficiency and potential for growth.

Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change -- a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research.

NASA-backed simulations reveal that meltwater from Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier lifts deep-ocean nutrients to the surface, sparking large summer blooms of phytoplankton that feed the Arctic ...

Pierre Marrec, Amanda Herbst, Stace E. Beaulieu, Susanne Menden-Deuer, HANDS-ON POST-CALIBRATION OF IN VIVO FLUORESCENCE USING OPEN ACCESS DATA, Oceanography, Vol. 38, No. 2, THE NEPTUNE SEAFLOOR ...