Sentences with phrase «pacific plankton populations»

Their studies show a 25 % decline in Pacific plankton populations in the last 25 years and a 6 ~ 9 % die off globally.

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In August 2008, scientists in the northeastern Pacific Ocean were shocked to witness a sudden, huge spike in the area's plankton population.

Take the right whale, a plankton - loving giant of which three populations exist: one in the northern Atlantic, another in the northern Pacific, and one in the Southern Ocean, which includes the southern parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Their goal, in the face of steep declines in Pacific salmon catches, was to trigger a plankton population explosion with the infusion of iron, a vital nutrient that's lacking in those waters.