Common sunscreen ingredients prove dangerous for freshwater ecosystems
Research by University of Alberta biologists shows detrimental effects on freshwater-dwelling crustaceansCredit: Photo credit: Aaron Boyd The active ingredients found ...
Tag: Marine/Freshwater Biology
Eat more to grow more arms…if you’re a sea anemone
Credit: Anniek Stokkermans/EMBL Your genetic code determines that you will grow two arms and two legs. The same fate is ...
NYUAD study finds gene targets to combat microorganisms binding to underwater surfaces
This study paves the way for the creation of new environmentally-friendly antifouling methodsCredit: NYUAD Abu Dhabi, UAE, September 1, 2020: ...
Monitoring and reporting framework to protect World Heritage Sites from invasive species
A team of international scientists have devised a new monitoring and reporting framework to help protect World Heritage Sites from ...
Clemson receives $2.5 million grant to study the mechanisms of ecosystem health
Researchers to identify microbes that relate to the health of ecosystemsCredit: College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - Clemson University ...
Saving marine life: Novel method quantifies the effects of plastic on marine wildlife
Credit: Marko Justup, Tokyo Institute of Technology Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology together with their international collaborators developed a ...
How weather affects crawfish harvests
Credit: LSU AgCenter The life cycle of a crawfish can be fairly straight forward. In the summer months, crawfish reproduce ...
Individual dolphin calls used to estimate population size and movement in the wild
Call of the wild: individual dolphin calls used to estimate population size and movement in the wildCredit: Dr Tess Gridley ...
Canada renews support for UN University Institute in Hamilton addressing world water issues: $10M
Research organization is at forefront of pressing global water challenges; New funding coincides with World Water Week and UN's 75th ...
How sticklebacks dominate perch
Analysis reveals waves of stickleback domination along the Baltic coastCredit: Mårten Erlandsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences A research project ...
A spatial regime shift to stickleback dominance
Credit: Photo: Joakim Hansen/Azote Large numbers of three-spined stickleback have gradually taken over larger parts of the Baltic Sea's coastal ...
Catching genes from chlamydiae allowed complex life to live without oxygen
Credit: Michel Melcher An international team of researchers has discovered a new group of Chlamydiae - Anoxychlamydiales - living under ...
Study of Asia’s hillstream loaches reveals keys to fish family’s land-walking abilities
Researchers have reconstructed the ancestral relationships of the hillstream loach family tree, detailing for the first time a range of ...
New tool for identifying endangered corals could aid conservation efforts
Credit: Iliana Baums, Penn State Coral conservation efforts could get a boost from a newly developed genotyping "chip"--the first of ...
UBCO researcher uses computer modelling to predict reef health
'Virtual' coral reefs become diagnostic tool to help manage the planet's reefsCredit: Jean-Philippe Maréchal. A UBC Okanagan researcher has developed ...
Scientists catalogue shark and ray distribution in Florida lagoon
FAU Harbor Branch study is first long-term, in-depth analysis of elasmobranch community in Southern Indian River lagoonCredit: Florida Atlantic University/Florida ...
Life in a nutshell: New species found in the carapace of late cretaceous marine turtle
Scientists identified a new ichnospecies from the shell of an extinct marine turtle fossil, the first known species coexisting on ...
Researchers successfully replace fishmeal, fish oil in farm-raised carnivorous fish
Best performing "fish-free" diet contains algae oil rich in essential omega-3 fatty acidsCredit: © Ocean Era, Inc. Researchers in Kona, ...
Nutrients make coral bleaching worse
Credit: Jess Bouwmeester A new study shows nutrients can aggravate the already negative effects of climate change on corals to ...
Downstream effects: Sturgeon lifespan, fertility vary strikingly with river conditions
Specimens on lower Missouri living 3x shorter, producing 10x fewer eggs than upriver counterpartsCredit: Photo: Sam Stukel, U.S. Fish and ...