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Author: River Dixon
River Dixon is a Ph.D. fellow in the lab of Dr. Craig R. McClain at the University of Lousiana Lafayette and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. Dixon studies the energetics of trophic structure in the deep sea.
How many species are in the deep sea?
In the beginning, people mused the expansive oceans contained but a handful of organisms. This idea started with Pliny the Elder, who lived in the…
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How is the deep sea so diverse? The struggle is real for late 1900s ecologists
The year is 1967. A paper is published that causes pandemonium in the scientific community. The discovery causes a fundamental shift in thinking divergent from…
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