Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web. Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything.

The ocean contains a complex food web–the network of interactions among predators and prey that maintain healthy ecosystems .

In the ocean, this warm water acts like a cap that interrupts critical ecological processes. Normally, nutrients well up from the depths, providing food for the phytoplankton floating at the ...

Oregon State University. "Marine heat waves disrupt the ocean food web in the northeast Pacific Ocean." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 03 / 240313135613.htm (accessed June ...

Sinking forests of algae bring food to the deep ocean. Surprisingly, these isopods can be seen carrying something more common on the ocean's surface: large pieces of Sargassum algae.

Scientists have found DDT in zooplankton and deep-sea fish off the coast of L.A., indicating the toxic chemical might be infiltrating the base of the food web.

A study published Thursday in the journal Science found that the ocean is changing color as it warms. By analyzing satellite data from 2009 to 2022, researchers from Duke University and the Georgia ...

Study shows the potential consequences of climate change for the ocean food web As the climate gets hotter, animals and plants are moving because it is harder to survive where they live.

In the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of L.A. was a dumping ground for the nation's largest manufacturer of the pesticide DDT — a chemical now known to harm humans and wildlife ...

Giant viruses play a role in the survival of single-celled marine organisms called protists. These include algae, amoeba, and flagellates, that form the base of ocean food webs. And since these ...

NEWPORT, Ore. – Marine heat waves in the northeast Pacific Ocean create ongoing and complex disruptions of the ocean food web that may benefit some species but threaten the future of many others ...