Abyssal ecosystems are the largest yet most poorly understood ecosystems on the planet. Since pioneering studies of abyssal benthic biodiversity carried out in the 1970s, we have known that they ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — Different species of seabirds can coexist on small, isolated islands despite eating the same kind of fish. A researcher has been involved in developing a mathematical model that ...
Coral reefs, benthic life, and a huge variety of ocean fish take advantage of these shallow ... through the aphotic zone all the way to the gigantic abyssal plain. Much of the abyssal plain ...
The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...
Nutrients in fish are beneficial for heart health, but fish high in purines can trigger a gout attack. Purines are important to the body, and when they break down, they form a substance called uric ...
Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for food. If they die, there’ll be fewer big fish—and that could rattle the food chain. marine-plastic-ocean-fish-microplasticThe naturally oily ...
The deep-sea extends beyond 200 meters (656 feet), plunging into the abyssal plains, trenches, and hydrothermal vent systems. Remarkably, some species can inhabit depths of over 10,000 meters (32,808 ...
Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Second Institute of ...
In 2020, according to conservation colleagues he worked with, he received the call he had been hoping for: A fisherman in northern Cambodia had captured a fish with a sleek silver back ...