The most common fish in the sea
The most common fish in the sea is likely a fish that you’ve never seen or even heard of…
Category Archives: Ecology: Organisms & Habitats
Determining Trophic Position: Everyone Gets A Trophy, but Only the Top Doesn’t Get Eaten
By: Dana Sackett For environmental scientists and biologists, there are some terms and phrases so commonly used that they become a part of everyday conversations. Trophic position is one of […]
Happy BOFFFF Day!
While mama fish may not have the same maternal instincts of our own dear mums, they do their part to sustain fish populations, particularly BOFFFFs. “What is a BOFFFF?” might you ask…A Big Old Fat Fecund Female Fish.
Yellow Perch and the hypoxia Goldilocks zone
It may seem obvious that suffocation is not good, but determining a fish’s tolerance for low oxygen is increasingly important as hypoxia increases worldwide. Hypoxia (low dissolved oxygen concentrations) occurs […]
How climate impacts microorganisms and why we should care
By: Dana Sackett As Earth Day approaches, it seems timely to pause and examine some of the natural processes that enable life on Earth. Remarkably, this big topic requires us […]
Spawning in strange waters: how hybridization affects native fishes
by Ed Kluender, guest blogger Hybrid creatures are one of the most common tropes of both goofy and great horror movies (think The Fly or countless werewolf movies), and plenty […]
The value of a species
By: Dana Sackett According to some scientists the earth is currently undergoing the sixth mass extinction crisis in the last half-billion years. Some have described this current crisis as the […]
