and phosphorus. These two facts combined—the sheer number of viruses and their intimate relationship with microbial life—suggest that viruses, too, play a critical role in the planet’s biosphere. Of ...

University of California, Irvine researchers have reported evidence that marine nutrient cycles – essential for sustaining ...

Productivity fuels life in the ocean, drives its chemical cycles, and lowers atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nutrient uptake and export interact with circulation to yield distinct ocean regimes.

Climate change is depleting vital ocean nutrients, disrupting marine ecosystems, and threatening food webs, a new study finds ...