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Pioneering techniques helps reveal how link between seaweed habitats and the seafloor may affect the global carbon cycling

Jan 27, 2023 by neri blower

Scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) and the Marine Biological Association (MBA) have used environmental DNA (eDNA) and ocean modelling to follow the dispersal of carbon rich seaweed material, to help improve understanding of natural climate change mitigation solutions provided by seaweed habitats and the patches of seafloor with which they are connected. Seaweed ’leaf … Read more

Food Safety for All: PhD Studentship Opportunity with University of Plymouth

Dec 6, 2022Nov 8, 2022 by Jenny Thompson

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Ocean forests vitally important as the rainforest

Jan 18, 2023Sep 23, 2022 by neri blower

A global study has found that ocean forests are amongst the most productive ecosystems on planet Earth. Scientists from the Marine Biological Association were part of an international team that collected data on ocean forests all over the world. They found that these forests can be larger, and just as productive for sustaining life as … Read more

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Pioneering techniques helps reveal how link between seaweed habitats and the seafloor may affect the global carbon cycling

Food Safety for All: PhD Studentship Opportunity with University of Plymouth

Ocean forests vitally important as the rainforest

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