A size-structured food-web model for the global ocean This is the metadata section ... which has realistic slopes of between −1.3 and −0.8. We use the model to explore the global structure of marine ...

"One-tenth of the global oceans are frozen, including the rapidly changing Arctic, Antarctic, and Southern Ocean. These ...

seagrass ecosystems help protect animals with shells or external skeletons. Seagrasses and phytoplankton near the ocean’s surface form the base of the aquatic food chain as they produce their ...

Meet Dulcibella camanchaca, a new species of predatory amphipod discovered in the Atacama Trench. This deep-sea creature ...

New research shows that overfishing has halved the populations of sharks and rays, triggering a loss of ecological functions ...

They worry that this new gold rush will do untold damage to the ocean's food web and other complex natural systems. What mountaintop-removal coal mining has done in Appalachia, deep-sea mining has the ...