Diatoms are classified as a major group of algae. The most common types of diatoms are phytoplankton. They are single-celled, but they have been observed to form colonies in ribbon, filaments, zigzags ...

We have suggested that future warming climate scenarios will result in a shift in the phytoplankton community in the central ocean gyres towards smaller cells, and that under such conditions, diatoms, ...

A recent review by Falkowski and Oliver 1 argues that coccolithophorid algae, and possibly cyanobacteria and other picoplankton and nanoplankton, should dominate the upper mixed layer of the open ...

Diatoms — tiny phytoplankton that are responsible for a fifth of all energy converted into matter by plants — may have become important much earlier in the development of Earth’s ocean ecosystems and ...

Rising carbon dioxide lets diatoms return to their evolutionary roots, by skipping steps that concentrate carbon dioxide. Over time, the drifting algae adjust by slowing down their metabolism, ...

New research shows a species of diatom, a single-celled algae, thought to be asexual does reproduce sexually, and scientists learned it's a common compound -- ammonium -- that puts the ubiquitous ...

We've all seen tiny boats inside tiny glass bottles, and miniature sculptures the size of a pinhead. But what about when art gets down to a cellular scale? The art of arranging microscopic algae-type ...

As I learned during an ecology lab in college, biodiversity assessment is currently the most effective and accepted method of measuring the health of rivers and streams. As I also learned during that ...

The current study relies on diatoms preserved in time in the sediments of freshwater lakes. Paul Hamilton, the curator of the algae collection at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, Canada, ...

Ever heard of forensic limnology? Neither had I, until I had a random conversation during a coffee break. The police find a body in the water. How did it get there? How did this person actually die?

As a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Science in the mid-2000s, Karthick Balasubramanian monitored the water quality of major South Indian rivers. As part of this work, he would travel to ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - New research shows a species of diatom, a single-celled algae, thought to be asexual does reproduce sexually, and scientists learned it's a common compound - ammonium - that puts the ...