A trio of oceanographers and mathematicians at Dalhousie University, in Canada, has found evidence that the populations of two major types of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean have been ...

Blooms of coccolithophores can also be beneficial for the local environment. For example, their calcium carbonate scales can ...

Dinoflagellates have flagellas, which help them go in any direction they want. Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton also take carbon dioxide out of the water and release oxygen as a by-product.

The dinoflagellates — single-celled phytoplankton that produce oxygen in water — emit a sparkling cold light when agitated as a protection mechanism.

The answer lies in dinoflagellates' remarkable ability to swim, which lends them a competitive advantage over other species of phytoplankton.

Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of phytoplankton — diatoms and dinoflagellates — are responding to climate change.

Phytoplankton are single-celled plants. The largest can be divided into three groups: coccolithophorids, diatoms, and dinoflagellates. The exterior of the coccolithophorid at right, a Syracolithus ...

Dinoflagellates, a type of phytoplankton in the bay, are often responsible for the bioluminescence that can seasonally appear along specific central coast beaches.

Several different phytoplankton species, including diatoms and dinoflagellates, seen through a microscope. These species use the VHA-enhancing mechanism of photosynthesis discovered in a new study.

Six decades of data on North Atlantic phytoplankton reveal that their biomass has decreased up to 2% annually across most of the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: Ekaterina Boltaga, Unsplash, CC0 ...

Two main types of phytoplankton have been decreasing in biomass in the North Atlantic by two per cent each year for the past 60 years, a new study has found.Dalhousie University researchers analyzed ...