De-icing road salts — even those marketed as environmentally friendly — may harm important freshwater plankton, a new analysis indicates. The study, published in Science of the Total Environment, ...
A common and widespread species of freshwater plankton, called a copepod, forms new species at an uncommonly high rate, scientists have discovered. Indeed, a new study has revealed that what was once ...
Plankton form the base of marine and freshwater food webs. They consist of phytoplankton (plants) and zooplankton (animals). Their name derives from the Greek word for “drifter”, since they are too ...
The first large-scale mapping of genomes of bacterial plankton in the Baltic Sea shows that the bacterias' closest relatives are not found in oceans or freshwater lakes, but in other brackish ...
The Washington Post: Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain, study says
Road salt may hurt vital link in freshwater food chain, study says
Science Daily: Closest relatives of Baltic Sea plankton are found in brackish North American waters
Closest relatives of Baltic Sea plankton are found in brackish North American waters
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Plankton : a guide to their ecology and monitoring for water quality / editors, Iain M. Suthers and David Rissik