As major links in the marine food web, benthic invertebrates are important for understanding the transfer of DDT to the broader ecosystem, and different species likely play different roles.

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Protecting sharks will help maintain the ecological balance and healthy marine ecosystems, as well as sustain the livelihoods of coastal communities, leading ultimately to protecting entire oceans.

First Nations people started trading 'trepang', or sea cucumber, in the 1700s, and now these tiny marine animals may help ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third time in a decade to glimpse the life still clinging to a whale’s ...

The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...

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How is ventilation at various depth layers of the Atlantic connected and what role do changes in ocean circulation play?

A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ...

Marine invertebrates represent a critical component of aquatic ecosystems with reproductive processes that are highly vulnerable to endocrine perturbations. Research in this field has revealed ...

Cold-seep sediments host a high proportion of archaea, mainly methanotrophic Euryarchaeota and uncultured Crenarchaeota of the marine benthic group B (also known as DSAG 21) and C 61, 63.