News Headline

The oceans are full of barriers for small organisms

Source
EurekAlert

Publication Date
2016-08-01

Subtle and short-lived differences in ocean salinity or temperature function as physical barriers for phytoplankton, and result in a patchy distribution of the oceans' most important food resource. The new research from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate at the University of Copenhagen may help explain the large biodiversity in the sea.

Content
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/fos--toa072716.php