Increasing ocean temperatures means less zooplankton and therefore less fish
Phytoplankton and zooplankton biomass will decrease 6 percent and 11 percent due to climate change Sea surface temperature is expected to…
Category: Earth Systems
These articles summarize studies that are all about how the planet Earth works!
Young forests suck up more carbon dioxide than old forests
WOODS HOLE, Mass.— As forests age, their ability to grow decreases, a new study by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists and…
Modern ocean acidification is outpacing ancient acidification upheaval
Some 56 million years ago, a massive pulse of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, carbonate…
Preserving Cuttlefish and a Valuable Fishing Industry
Once upon a time, in a sea far far away, called Adriatic Sea, there were many cuttlefish. These delicate creatures spent their short life…
Winter’s Cold Can’t Stop Me, Baby: Migrating Birds Don’t Duet
In “Ain’t no Mountain High Enough,” Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sing “If you ever need a helping hand,…
How to Find Large Animals by Tracking Dung Beetles
Big animals make lots of dung. And where there’s dung, there’s dung beetles. Researchers counted fossilized dung beetles to figure out…
Who’s the Living Fossil? The genus Crocodylus is Younger Than We Think!
What comes to mind when you think of crocodiles? You might think of ancient reptiles, or “living fossils,” that have been…
Hitting the jackpot — a new vertebrate family endemic to West Africa
Biological classification arranges taxa according to their degree of relationship; several species may be grouped in a genus, several…
Environment-related morphological changes can confuse scientists
For many years, morphology-based classification has served us so well, and still forms a basis of what we are viewing the biological world…
The never before revealed history of the Mediterranean pipefish Syngnathus abaster: secrets found in its maternal inherited DNA.
Mitochondrial DNA studies shows the occurrence of three well-defined groups of pipefish populations – which independently evolved in a…