Marine food webs are highly complex ... For many organisms in the sea, we still don't know what they eat, how much they eat or who eats them," says Wirtz. Size-based models, on the other hand ...

The ocean naturally absorbs a quarter to a third ... have now investigated the response of zooplankton and potential impacts on the food web for the first time in an experiment conducted off ...

Scientists map out the footprint produced by fishmeal and fish oil (FMFO) industries for the first time, establishing a ...

The highest trophic niches in Mesozoic oceans were filled by diverse marine reptiles, including ichthyosaurians, ...

Imagine an underwater world where tiny creatures hold the fate of the planet’s carbon cycles in their delicate fins. Beneath ...

New research reveals that methane, typically associated with deep-sea ecosystems, plays a significant role in river food webs ...

Although the Bay of Bengal covers less than 1% of the global ocean, it supplies nearly 8% of the world’s fishery production.

Whales can also help cycle nutrients in the ocean when they disturb the seabed as they feed. Gray whales ( Eschrichtius ...

professor of ocean science at the University of California Santa Barbara. "It would have catastrophic biological consequences ...