A group of diatom species belonging to the Nitzschia genus gave up on photosynthesis and now get their carbon straight from ...

Spring weather brings welcome conditions for flowers and plant life to bloom across the land ... display of winter abundance. Blooms of diatoms—microscopic, photosynthetic algae—were alive ...

We also suggested that a warming climate will simultaneously enhance the productivity of large phytoplankton, such as diatoms, in coastal regions, owing to increased wind-driven upwelling 1.

Tiny diatoms in ... the global carbon cycle. Using photosynthesis, they absorb large amounts of CO 2 from the environment and convert it into nutrients that feed much of the life in the ocean.

Ocean acidification is changing the nature of inorganic carbon availability in the global oceans. Diatoms account for ~ 40% of all marine primary productivity and are major contributors to the export ...