Algal blooms can kill fish and harm a lake's ecosystem, but by reducing two nutrients together such as nitrogen and phosphorus - not just one or the other - water managers might limit the blooms in lakes and rivers, a new University of Florida study shows. ..
Read More ⇒A new University of Florida study shows ecologists may have been missing crucial information from animal bones for more than 150 years. ..
Read More ⇒Using a new comprehensive index designed to assess the benefits to people of healthy oceans, a team of scientists that includes USF Biological Oceanographer Kendra Daly has evaluated the ecological, social, economic and political conditions for every coastal country in the world. ..
Read More ⇒A Nova Southeastern University (Nova) researcher has invented software that helps predict invasion patterns of non-native species including the lionfish, a predatory species that has invaded Florida’s coastal waters as well as the Loxahatchee River. ..
Read More ⇒Using a state-of-the-art electron microscopy at Florida State University, FSU biologist Akshinthala K.S.K. Prasad recently identified a new diatom genus and species, and he didn't have to look far to find it. He discovered the novel diatom in a seven-year-old sample of material that a colleague had collected from the St. Johns River in Northeast Florida's Putnam County. Consultations with international diatom experts helped to confirm that what he was seeing was something entirely new at the genus level and undocumented at the species level. ..
Read More ⇒Guy Harvey, the renowned artist, scientist, and conservationist, recently donated $100,000 to Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) to conduct research on fisheries. ..
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