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14 JUL
Flagellates live in a small-scale environment where viscosity impedes contact with their bacterial prey. Most flagellates use the active waving motion of a flexible flagellum...
22 JUN
Many species of phytoplankton release toxins that combat competitors and predators. It has long puzzled researchers how such ‘public good’ toxicity has evolved, because...
05 MAY
In the oceans, a nearly constant biomass of organisms is found in equal log- intervals of body-size. This large-scale regularity is referred to as the size spectrum...
29 APR
Despite living in a micro-scale world governed by viscosity, heterotrophic nanoflagellates are able to clear great volumes of water for prey by creating feeding flows...
22 APR
The deep-sea glass sponge Euplectella aspergillum is well known due to its beautiful lattice-work structure, and has attracted interest in its solid and fluid mechanical...
13 APR
The bloom-forming diatom Pseudo-nitzschia produces a potent neurotoxin, domoic acid, that may cause closure of fisheries. The reason for its production has long been...
08 APR
Phytoplankton employ a wide variety of defense against grazers, and rely on chemical cues to assess the current grazing pressure. However, these signals are potentially...
08 APR
In a new paper, Ocean Life researchers use direct observations of predator-prey interactions to study the defensive benefit of colony formation in four species of phytoplankton...
01 APR
Organisms adapt to predation risk by changing their behavior. A new study from the Centre for Ocean Life demonstrates how defensive behaviors of marine pelagic organisms...
08 MAR
The Metabolic Theory of Ecology states from scaling laws that population-level properties – maximum population growth rate—scales with a -1/4 exponent with size. However...
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