Scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Ecosystems Center report that microplastics have been accumulating in salt marshes for decades, creating a historical record of human plastic waste.
A new study shows that substantial amounts of carbon dioxide were released during the last millennium because of crop cultivation on peatlands in the Northern Hemisphere.
A team of BU biologists revealed, for the first time, that it is possible to accurately predict the abundance of different species of soil microbes in different parts of the world.
In a new Nature Communications study, researchers from BU s Microbiome Initiative discovered that providing microbial communities with a broader variety of food sources didn t increase the variety of microbial species within their experiments, but more food did fuel more microbial growth. The team s ultimate goal is to learn how to direct microbiome behavior through environmental molecules like food sources.
New research focused on interactions among microbes in water suggests fungal microparasites play a bigger than expected role in aquatic food webs and the global carbon cycle.