Scientists looked at radiocarbon levels in the shells of microscopic animals which lived both near the surface and on / near the bottom of the Southern Ocean, and found large quantities of carbon locked away in «old deep water» around Antarctica. (sciencemediacentre.co.nz)
They incorporated the lifecycle of phytoplankton and zooplankton — small, often microscopic animals at the bottom of the food chain — into a novel mechanistic model for assessing the global ocean carbon export. (sciencedaily.com)
The ability of the ocean to save the globe from climate change may hinge on the behavior of microscopic animals in a dim, watery world. (scientificamerican.com)