Sentences with phrase «ocean phytoplankton»
"Ocean phytoplankton" refers to tiny plant-like organisms that live in the ocean. They are the foundation of the marine food web, producing oxygen and serving as food for many ocean creatures. Full definition
Le Quéré, C., Buitenhuis, E. T., Moriarty, R., Alvain, S., Aumont, O., Bopp, L., Chollet, S., Enright, C., Franklin, D. J., Geider, R. J., Harrison, S. P., Hirst, A., Larsen, S., Legendre, L., Platt, T., Prentice, I. C., Rivkin, R. B., Sathyendranath, S., Stephens, N., Vogt, M., Sailley, S., and Vallina, S. M.: Role of zooplankton dynamics for Southern Ocean phytoplankton biomass and global biogeochemical cycles, Biogeosciences Discuss., 12, 11935 - 11985, 2015.
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A main indirect effect is the fertilization of ocean phytoplankton production by dust - mitigated input of iron to the ocean surface layer (6, 7).
They are ancestors to terrestrial plants, which seem to have evolved from certain ocean phytoplankton hundreds of millions of years ago.
Scientists estimate that ocean phytoplankton generate about 63 terawatts [image] of chemical power every year.
The upper ocean phytoplankton blooms are impacted by the rain and impact the thermal structure.
This study is part of a long - term effort to unravel the role that Southern Ocean phytoplankton have played in past changes in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide.
Primary producers — plant life and ocean phytoplankton — play an integral part of the Earth system; some would say that they drive the entire biosphere.