Trophic Ecology
Feeling peckish? A diet assessment of a Hawaiian shearwater
Evaluating diet from digested stomach content is difficult and can be inconclusive. That’s why scientists from Hawaii DNA sequenced it…
Tag: DNA sequencing
Microbiology
Sea Ice Diversifies Antarctic Phytoplankton
A new study finds that communities of phytoplankton become less diverse and export less carbon as sea ice melts.
Microbiology
Antarctic Sea Ice Feeds Microbes with a Surprising Ability
By sampling seawater around Antarctica, a Japanese research team has discovered microorganisms that can transform nitrogen gas into more biologically…
Microbiology
The answer to starvation? Diversity
Photosynthetic microorganisms can't go it alone, so they succeed by playing host to a diverse array of microbial partners
Microbiology
The ocean’s tiny, mysterious majority
The earth has more viruses than the universe has stars - but we know far less about our tiny majority…