Where plankton suffers, so does the entire ocean food chain. When environmenmental conditions change, often triggered by too much of a nutrient—such as nitrogen or phosphorus from fertilizer ...

Plankton are microscopic plants and animals that make up the base of the marine food chain, meaning they are a basic source of energy for marine life all the way up to large predators like sharks ...

The diagram shows how mercury can accumulate in the food chain. In the sea, tiny animals and plants called plankton absorb the mercury compounds. When the plankton are eaten by small fish ...

“Marine biologists today note, almost everywhere, a decline in plankton biodiversity,” Mollo says in another interview. “When ...

The researchers put the plankton in three categories ... deicing salt may not sufficiently protect a vital link in the food ...