News tagged with dissolved organic


Voracious sponges save reef

Biology /

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Tropical oceans are known as the deserts of the sea. And yet this unlikely environment is the very place where the rich and fertile coral reef grows. Dutch researcher Jasper de Goeij investigated how caves in the coral reef ...





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Study: Fallen leaves found less polluting

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 21, 2007 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

U.S. government scientists say freshly fallen leaves contribute less to the levels of carbon in mineral soil than was previously believed.


Dissolved organic matter in the water column may influence coral health

Biology /

created Mar 04, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Bacterial communities endemic to healthy corals could change depending on the amount and type of natural and man-made dissolved organic matter in seawater, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin Marine ...


Mapping nutrient distributions over the Atlantic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Large-scale distributions of two important nutrient pools - dissolved organic nitrogen and dissolved organic phosphorus (DON and DOP) have been systematically mapped for the first time over the Atlantic Ocean in a study led ...


Scientists expand understanding of how river carbon impacts the Arctic Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 12, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Arctic rivers transport huge quantities of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the Arctic Ocean. The prevailing paradigm regarding DOC in arctic rivers is that it is largely refractory, making it of little significance for ...


Mangroves importance and decline studied

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created Feb 27, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists say mangroves, the backbone of tropical ocean coastlines, are far more important to the global ocean's biosphere than previously thought.


Geobiologists propose that the earliest complex organisms fed by absorbing ocean buffet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms -- living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago - likely fed by osmosis.


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Glacier melt adds ancient edibles to marine buffet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 11

Glaciers along the Gulf of Alaska are enriching stream and near shore marine ecosystems from a surprising source - ancient carbon contained in glacial runoff, researchers from four universities and the U.S. ...


Scientists advance facile synthesis of nanoparticles with multiple functions

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanostructured materials have garnered great interest worldwide due to their unique size-dependent properties for chemical, electronic, structural, medical and consumer applications.


Don't judge a brook by its color -- brown waters are more natural

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 21, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Over the last 20 years lakes and streams in remote parts of the UK, southern Scandinavia and eastern North America have been increasingly stained brown by dissolved organic matter. In this week’s Nature journal (22 Novemb ...


Alpine lakes beginning to show effects of climate change

Alpine lakes beginning to show effects of climate change

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created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (12) | comments 7

A recent study forecasts that increased climatic variability poses serious consequence for both the biodiversity and ecosystem function of high-elevation lakes.



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