News from Centre for Ocean Life
24 AUG
Copepods avoid eating most toxic dinoflagellates and thus the toxin efficiently protects the algae against grazing
15 AUG
Is toxin production in phytoplankton costly? How do environmental conditions affect the cost of toxin production?
13 AUG
Marine ecosystems are overwhelmingly complex. The trait-based method offers a simple way to describe, model, and understand complex marine systems. In a new paper we...
06 AUG
What zooplankton foraging strategy is more efficient in terms of volume of water cleared? What mechanism determines clearance efficiency of zooplankton foraging strategies...
01 MAY
After oil spills and dispersant applications, the formation of red tides or harmful algal blooms (HABs) has been observed, but the link between both phenomena was unknown...
21 MAR
A new Ocean Life paper demonstrates a global mismatch in the protection of multiple marine biodiversity components and ecosystem services.
21 MAR
Can sexual dimorphism lead to differences in starvation tolerance between copepod genders? Can mating activities reduce starvation tolerance in planktonic copepods?
21 MAR
Diatoms change chain-formation and up-or downregulate thousands of genes when smelling copepod grazers
24 JAN
Some copepods, mm-sized zooplankton, that live in the very surface layer of the ocean jump out of the water and perform spectacular flights when escaping from predators...
24 JAN
New review experimentally exploring plankton defense mechanism