News from Centre for Ocean Life

New paper: A cascade of warming impacts brings bluefin tuna to Greenland waters...

We document the presence of a large highly migratory fish species, bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus, in east Greenland (Denmark Strait) waters during August 2012. This location...

New book chapter on solar radiation and copepods.

Why do males and females differ in size?

Males of pelagic copepods are consistently smaller than the females. A new study from Centre for Ocean Life describes the patterns for 400 species and suggests a simple...

New paper in Ecology letters: Shape shifting pelagic invertebrates resolve longstanding...

In a new paper in Ecology Letters, we use the diverse shape shifting abilities of pelagic invertebrates to test competing theories of how metabolism scales with body...

How zooplankton hide. New article in PNAS.

Zooplankton have developed propulsion mechanisms and swimming modes that minimise the fluid disturbance that they generate. New study from Centre for Ocean Life has discovered...

Two new popular science articles in Aktuel Naturvidenskab

Thomas and Mie has published an article on sexual selection in zooplankton: 'Lækre lopper scorer bedst', and Nis has published one with the title "Fiskeyngel er fremtidens...

Ocean Life with strong presence during Science in the City

Physics of swimming in copepods: from nauplii to adults

A new paper by Navish, Anders, and Thomas describes the hydrodynamic and energetic changes experienced by copepods, as they go through their development from nauplii...

A life-history evaluation of the impact of maternal effects on recruitment and...

A life-history evaluation of the impact of maternal effects on recruitment and fisheries reference points Núria Calduch-Verdiell, Brian R. MacKenzie, James W. Vaupel...

Non-consumptive effects of predator presence on reproduction

A new article by an international research team explores the non-consumptive effects of predators in a coastal copepod. J Heuschele, S Ceballos, CM Andersen Borg, O...