A study led by Associate Professor Kelton McMahon at University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has found that food webs on tropical reefs are more fragile than we once thought.

Phytoplankton is an important component of the food-web and is predated by a wide variety of aquatic organisms, such as water fleas, copepods and fish. These microscopic algae also play a crucial role ...

Deep-sea mining poses significant risks for a vital, hidden part of the ocean. That’s the message from a new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study, the first to truly look at the impact of mining waste ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created an open-source website to learn what different organisms eat, and what ...

Winters on the Great Lakes are harsh – so much so that the scientists who work there often focus on the summer months, when tiny microbes at the base of the food chain were thought to be most ...

Sampling snapper on coral reefs to assess their role in complex reef food web dynamics. “When you dive on these beautiful Red Sea reefs, one of the first things that you’ll notice is these snapper ...