In an experiment with organisms from the Kiel Fjord, a team of biologists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel demonstrated for the first time, that ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton community. (oceanacidification.de)
Ecologist Adrianna Ianora and neurobiologist Antonio Miralto of the Naples Zoological Station first noticed a diatom - related drop in copepod hatching rates in laboratory studies. (sciencemag.org)
Scientists have long thought that many of the tiny marine crustaceans called copepods find their supper by colliding with it. (sciencemag.org)