zooplankton

Science Stories: Adventures in Bay-Delta DataScience Stories: Adventures in Bay-Delta Data

Science Stories: Adventures in Bay-Delta Data

The base of the estuarine food web is phytoplankton – microscopic, floating, single-celled organisms drifting on the currents (“phyto” meaning…

2 years ago
Freshwater ecosystems at risk due to glyphosate useFreshwater ecosystems at risk due to glyphosate use

Freshwater ecosystems at risk due to glyphosate use

Photo: One of the few species that was found to be resistant to severe glyphosate contamination was Scapholeberis mucronata, a…

3 years ago
Microplastics in our mussels: the sea is feeding human garbage back to usMicroplastics in our mussels: the sea is feeding human garbage back to us

Microplastics in our mussels: the sea is feeding human garbage back to us

Shellfish are the natural filter systems of our seas, mechanisms of purity. So, to discover in a report released on…

7 years ago