Phytoplankton Blooms

Student's tutorial on bloom hypotheses in the context of ...

Phytoplankton blooms are elements in repeating annual cycles of phytoplankton biomass and they have significant ecological and biogeochemical consequences.

Fertile Ponds and Plankton Blooms - American Sport Fish

Healthy green water each spring leads to olive green shades over a week to ten days. Olive green yields to greenish-brown which goes to brown.

How deep-ocean vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms

A new study suggests vents in the seafloor may affect life near the ocean's surface and the global carbon cycle more than previously thought.

OS - Phytoplankton blooms on the western shelf of Tasmania

The region normally experiences two phytoplankton blooms per annum. The first bloom occurs during late austral summer months as a consequence of upwelling- ...

Dynamics of phytoplankton blooms in turbulent vortex cells - Journals

Our results confirm that the interplay between growth, sinking and turbulent transport can drive phytoplankton blooms and affect phytoplankton ...

Phytoplankton blooms during austral summer in the Ross Sea ...

The aim was to identify the mechanisms that modulate phytoplankton blooms, and consequently, the fate of organic materials produced by the blooms.

Envisat's MERIS captures phytoplankton bloom - ESA

These blooms – the sudden appearance of phytoplankton in massive numbers, enough to colour the ocean and be detected from orbiting sensors– are capable of being ...

Phytoplankton bloom

But it's still pretty. And useful scientifically; blooms like this happen when there's a confluence of various factors, like currents, nutrients ...

Large phytoplankton bloom in the Atlantic Ocean - Copernicus

Large phytoplankton bloom in the Atlantic Ocean ... Image of the day in high resolution! ... This image, acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel- ...

Phytoplankton Blooms - (World Biogeography) - Fiveable

Phytoplankton blooms are rapid increases in the population of phytoplankton, microscopic organisms that photosynthesize and form the foundation of aquatic food ...

Are phytoplankton blooms occurring earlier in the Arctic?

Significant trends towards earlier phytoplankton blooms were detected in about 11% of the area of the Arctic Ocean with valid Chl data, e.g. in ...

Phytoplankton Blooms Expanding Further Than Previously Thought ...

Our results show the geometric areas of the phytoplankton blooms could reach (7.20 ± 2.8) × 104 km2 on average, which was ~3.1 times that of ...

Phenology of Phytoplankton Blooms in a Trophic Lake Observed ...

This study provides a quantitative assessment of phytoplankton phenological shifts and elucidates the inter-relationship between phenology parameters and ...

How Plankton Blooms Absorb CO2 - YouTube

Science for the Public 02/24/15: Amala Mahadevan, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Physical Oceanography Dept, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Phytoplankton blooms are strongly impacted by microzooplankton ...

Microzooplankton grazing was an important loss process affecting phytoplankton, with grazing rates equivalent to nearly two-thirds (64%) of growth rates on ...

Full article: Phytoplankton bloom detection and trends in satellite ...

The findings reveal a significant increase in bloom alerts over the last 20 years in the northwestern and southwestern subareas. Temporal changes in chlorophyll ...

Arctic's Spring Phytoplankton Blooms Arrive Earlier - Live Science

Phytoplankton blooms are peaking earlier in some Arctic waters, raising concern about what the changes mean for the animals that depend on ...

Scientists Discover Huge Phytoplankton Bloom in Ice Covered Waters

A team of researchers, including scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), discovered a massive bloom of phytoplankton ...

Comparative metagenomics of phytoplankton blooms after nutrient ...

Increasing anthropogenic pressures on the coastal marine environments impact these ecosystems via a variety of mechanisms including nutrient ...

Why These Ocean Pics Are Both Stunning and Terrifying

A study published on March 1 in the journal Nature found that phytoplankton blooms increased in size between 2003 and 2020. The authors also ...