Bioluminescent marine dinoflagellates create incredibly powerful nighttime displays in coastal regions, forming the basis for ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Article URL: https://plos.io/4kq8QEt Article title: Large, regionally variable shifts in diatom and dinoflagellate biomass in the North Atlantic over six decades Author countries: Canada Funding: This ...

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

Concurrently, the phytoplankton community structure underwent significant changes with the dominant group shifting from diatoms to dinoflagellates, due to the higher atrazine sensitivity of diatoms ...

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