Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

These pressures have huge effects on the coral reefs—impacting the amount of ... in particular species of omnivores, plankton feeders and herbivores, have reduced. In contrast, these trophic ...

and many have coral reef ecosystems," says Joe Roman, a biologist at the University of Vermont, who co-led the new research. ...