Sentences with phrase «plankton blooms do»

But plankton blooms do cause dead zones.

Not exact matches

Despite the size of the bloom, however, the plankton did not take in a record - breaking amount of carbon dioxide — only about 20 % more carbon than that part of the ocean sequesters biologically each year.

The plankton bloom was of larger proportion than what we did in the area.

Satellite images as well as maps of chlorophyll abundance appear to show that the iron did indeed fuel a plankton bloom in August.

Do you get a different plankton bloom if you exactly mimic Mother Nature than if you exactly mimic some supplier of agricultural chemicals?

Realistically, do we know what the consequences of these plankton blooms would actually be?

One thing we do know is that plankton blooms have been linked to increased cloud cover, which leads to cooling.

There does need to be more study to identify exactly how much carbon dioxide is actually sequestered in the bottom of the ocean, but the use of iron as a fertilizer in naturally barren areas of the ocean to induce plankton blooms is no different from what mankind has been doing for thousands of yeas — albeit on the ocean versus on land.

Among other findings, the research did show that no harmful environmental effects were noted in creating an artificially generated iron induced plankton bloom, and that very large quantities of carbon dioxide are indeed sequestered from the atmosphere.

The good news is that such air capture could be less expensive and invasive than, for instance, such measures, mentioned above, as «seeding the oceans with iron to spur plankton blooms» (which strikes me as a global ecological disaster waiting to happen if a mutation occurs or terrorists do a genetic hack.)

I recall also seeing work on ocean sediments indicating that during the dusty - dry climates when lots of windblown dust is in the air, plankton did not bloom in the oceans in proportion to the added minerals.