Biology

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Krill Sex

Dr. M February 25, 2011

Make sure you go read Hannah’s post on krill sex in the deep sea. Find out why should care about where Antarctic krill get it…

Ecology Environmental Sciences Organisms

DSN Scientist In Residence Jarrett Byrnes On Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

Jarrett Byrnes February 24, 2011 Jarrett Byrnes

In my last post, I showed that ocean food webs are being re-written by human driven extinctions and invasions. In particular, most species that have…

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Tide Pool: Cephalopods, Ash, and Sulphur Are to Blame

An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Heightened biodiversity may make an ecosystem more stabile…

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Scientist In Residence Jarrett Brynes: How Are Extinctions and Invasions Shaping Food Webs?

Jarrett Byrnes February 18, 2011 Community Ecology diversity extinction food web Invasion Jarrett Byrnes Scientist In Residence trophic level

February’s Scientist In Residence that I am way behind on introducing is Jarrett Byrnes, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and…

Evolution Social Sciences

Darwin Day Repost – Ex Omnia Conchis: Darwin And His Beloved Barnacles

Kevin Zelnio February 12, 2011 Archetype Barnacle Best of Zelnio Charles Darwin Cirripedes Cryptophialus Darwin Darwin Day Erasmus Darwin evolution Hermaphroditism HMS Beagle Homology John Hooker Lamarck Mr. Arthrobalanus On the Origin of Species Richard Owen Robert Chambers taxonomy Vestiges Zoonomia

This post was based on a talk I gave for Darwin Day last year at the Duke Marine Lab. Reposting in honor of Darwin Day.…

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Oceans Past: What Do We Know About Them

Kevin Zelnio February 9, 2011 Census of Marine Life CoML HMAP Poul Holm

Poul Holm describes why understanding history is important in marine ecology. Holm is currently chair of the global History of Marine Animal Populations project (HMAP)…

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Deep-Sea Creatures Play in the Same Band

Dr. M February 6, 2011 bathyal biogeography brittle star latitude

I am really loving the new paper by O’Hara et al. The gist is we typically think of the different oceans having unique sets of…

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Welcome to the SHELL MIDDEN!!

Kevin Zelnio February 2, 2011 Boneyard

Formerly known as the “boneyard”, this month Deep Sea News brings you the SHELL MIDDEN!!! A much more exciting and biodiverse assemblage of paleoposts. We…

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Red Means Go: Coral, Color, and Climate Change

RickMac February 1, 2011 conservation coral reefs Genetics

One of the defining decision points of life: Settle-down and make a living close to the familiar particulars of your birthplace or venture out to…

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What’s Eating You?

RickMac January 25, 2011 Caribbean coral reefs Field Work Invasive Species marine conservation

Feed a fish a fish, it eats for a day; Teach a fish to fish, it eats forever. That basically seems to be the crux…