Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Princeton University and Xiamen University researchers report that in tropical and subtropical oligotrophic waters, ocean ...

according to a new study published in the New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research.

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters ... impact on the oceanic nitrogen cycle compared to that of cyanobacteria.

Since the mid-1900s, humans have been exerting an ever-increasing impact on the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities ... the addition of nitrogen can lead to nutrient imbalance in trees ...

Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...

The worlds largest iceberg, A23a, is now near the British island of South Georgia. The iceberg threatens the marine ecosystem ...

Eutrophication is a leading cause of impairment of many freshwater and coastal marine ecosystems in the ... fish is often positively related to nutrient levels and ecosystem productivity.

https://doi.org/10.3318/bioe.2016.23 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3318/bioe.2016.23 Excessive nutrient loading to the marine environment from different sources ...