We have suggested that future warming climate scenarios will result in a shift in the phytoplankton community in the central ocean gyres towards smaller cells, and that under such conditions ...

Overall, future open-ocean scenarios do not point towards a decrease in the predominance of diatoms. Falkowski, P. J. & Oliver, M. J. Mix and match: how climate selects phytoplankton. Nature Rev.

Researchers have discovered significant changes in the growth patterns of deep-living phytoplankton due to global warming, as ...

Tiny diatoms in the ocean are masters at capturing carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the environment. They fix up to 20% of the ...

Leveraging the food of tiny phytoplankton could trap carbon and sequester it to the ocean’s bottom.

Biological oceanographer John A. Gittings and an international group of researchers have found an example of this phenomenon ...