In a Hungarian-Greek collaboration, Károly Pálffy researcher of the institute's Plankton Ecology Group, studied the dynamics ...

It can ID dinoflagellates and planktonic algae, but is specifically designed to ID toxic cyanobacteria, commonly called blue-green algae. Swelling visible in the microscope is among the clues the ...

We used 10 yr of data from the Gulf of Naples to determine the life history of a planktonic diatom, Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata, through the analysis of cell abundances and cell size patterns.

As larvae, they start out eating microscopic food like unicellular algae, planktonic animals, and small crustaceans. As they grow, their diet shifts almost exclusively to small crustaceans called ...