Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms that live at and beneath the surface of lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans across ...

Plankton is an umbrella term for all kinds of different organisms floating in our waters, from plants, known as phytoplankton ...

Not much attention is paid to plankton because these creatures are usually hidden from sight. They are mostly microscopic in size and live in aquatic environments, but human lives are intricately ...

These charismatic animals power the marine world as we know it. Madison Goldberg The group of animals known as zooplankton is incredibly diverse. It’s populated by creatures that differ wildly in ...

Freshwater ecosystems are impacted by human activities, including climate change, pollution and invasive species. We are researchers at the Université du Québec à Montréal and part of the Groupe de ...

There’s a long-standing conundrum in ecology called the paradox of the plankton. Famously articulated by ecologist George Evelyn Hutchinson in 1961, the paradox explores how odd it is that there are ...

Thanks to a new algorithm, researchers at the AWI can now use satellite data to determine in which parts of the ocean certain types of phytoplankton are dominant. In addition, they can identify toxic ...

Global temperature records are expected to exceed the 1.5 °C threshold for the first time this year. This has happened much sooner than predicted. So can life on the planet adapt quickly enough? In ...