And that can have a big impact on not just coral reefs but various
kinds of plankton.
So while warmer oceans and a more fertile atmosphere might accelerate
some kinds of plankton bloom, the seas could become too acidic for tropical micro-organisms.
Or an American history teacher could take a class in identifying different
kinds of plankton and also get a bump in pay.
Not exact matches
All
kinds of creatures, from the smallest
plankton to the largest fishes, will be forced to adjust.
The
kind of algae Smetacek managed to grow were
plankton without shells.
Up - welling from the deep water
of the Indian Ocean south
of the islands, and
plankton rich currents
of the Lombok Strait attract many
kinds of pelagics.
Could there be something different about the local source material — ocean
plankton producing one
kind of sediment exposed to the atmosphere, versus say peat bogs or coal seams being washed out upstream and delivering locally derived material directly to the sediment beds?
In a paper just published in the Journal
of Plankton Research, two Canadian marine scientists, Sonia Batten and James Gower, reported evidence
of a critical intervening step — a growth spurt in just the right
kind of tiny animals, crustacean zooplankton, that young salmon thrive on.