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UH research vessel Kilo Moana. (Photo credit: Tara Clemente/ UH) The coexistence of diverse microbes in the open ocean is made possible by staggering

Freshwater  Freshwater Freshwater habitats such as rivers and wetlands have high biodiversity, but this is being endangered by climate change, increasing the likelihood of floods and drought due to shifting rainfall patterns. Professor Chris Spray, the lead author of the Freshwater chapter at the University of Dundee, said: "Protecting these endangered habitats would necessitate a 'wholescape' catchment solution that integrates ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic processes. Planting trees along riverbanks, for example, will preserve habitats by providing shelter and building thermal refu...

Close (Photo : Theodor Vasile Unsplash) An analysis of nearly 50,000 aquatic species' shifting positions between 1955 and 2015 showed that a projected effect of global warming - species moving away from the equator - can now be seen on a worldwide scale. Lessening Biodiversity (Photo : Pixabay) It said that more global warming, which is now imminent, would further reduce the diversity of biodiversity in tropical oceans. The results of the change, according to scientists, may be dramatic and difficult to foresee. Unpredictable Changes According to Prof David Schoeman, a co-author of the repor...

 E-Mail Researchers from MBARI, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, after years of development and testing, have successfully demonstrated that a fleet of autonomous robots can track and study a moving microbial community in an open-ocean eddy. The results of this research effort were recently published in Science Robotics. Autonomous robotic fleets enable researchers to observe complex systems in ways that are otherwise impossible with purely ship-based or remote sensing techniques. In a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is reducing oppo...