Is it possible to "reprogram" an organism that is found higher in the food chain, which consumes sugar and releases carbon dioxide, so that it will consume carbon dioxide from the environment and ...

After a nor’easter postponed Mashomack Preserve’s inaugural Fluorescent Fungi hike, the search for the glowing fungi took ...

A new study shows that combined warming and nutrient-poor diets affect marine protists in species-specific ways, with ...

We examine the sensitivity of the seasonal cycle of heterotrophic respiration to model estimates of litterfall seasonality, herbivory, plant allocation, tissue chemistry, and land use. As a part of ...

Ocean microbial communities are made up of thousands of diverse taxa whose metabolic demands set the rates of both biomass production and degradation. Thus, these microscopic organisms play a critical ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Life on Earth blooms with wild ingenuity. From phosphorescent fungi feeding in the undergrowth to chameleons flicking tongues at unsuspecting prey, every organism carves out its own strategy to ...

Whale falls, when a whale passes away and its carcass falls to the seafloor, are part of the natural cycle of life and death. This sudden presence of rich, organic material can feed generations of ...

Arcellinida shelled amoebae are heterotrophic microbial eukaryotes with an extensive Neoproterozoic fossil record, the vase-shaped microfossils (VSMs), a diverse group that is abundant and widespread ...

This fun and interactive cut-and-paste sorting activity will give your students hands-on practice determining the difference between autotrophs and heterotrophs! Students will cut out descriptions ...

Autumn is an independent journalist and educator who writes about climate, wildlife, biodiversity, and environmental justice and policy. In ecology, biotic and abiotic factors encompass all the living ...