Likewise, every year in late summer to early fall, large blooms of dinoflagellates take place. Both are major types of phytoplankton and thus serve as a major part of the base of the oceanic food ...

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

A fluorescence microscopy image of phytoplankton including chain-forming diatoms and many large dinoflagellates. The different colors indicate different components of the cells including the cell ...

There are two main types of phytoplankton: dinoflagellates, which swim with whip-like tails, and diatoms, which are immobile and travel via ocean currents.

Watching phytoplankton illuminate the world's shores is an otherworldly experience. With a bit of luck and perseverance, these are the best places to catch the notoriously elusive natural phenomenon.

This prompted an email from Dr. Adrian Burd, a biology oceanographer at the University of Georgia.He noted that toxins released by phytoplankton are generally limited to dinoflagellates—a ...

Environmental factors controlling the phytoplankton blooms at the Patagonia shelf-break in spring. Deep-Sea Research I , 55, (9), 1150-1166. NASA Earth Observatory (2013, October 22) Something ...

Researchers expected to find a smaller proportion of diatom biomass in the phytoplankton population compared with dinoflagellates, but that wasn't reflected in the data. (Ruby Hu/Dalhousie University) ...

The phytoplankton are most likely dinoflagellates, according to Steve Haddock, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's bioluminescence expert.