Not exact matches
But the instrumental value of
plankton for the whole system of
life in the
ocean is enormous.
Despite slower temperature shifts
in ocean waters,
ocean life from
plankton to fish have begun moving
in response to global warming
An international team of scientists has discovered a new lineage of extinct
plankton - feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, that
lived in warm
oceans during the age of the dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago.
The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient
ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea
life (especially ancient
plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped
in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.
These organisms, found mostly
in certain
ocean plankton communities,
live a flexible, «mixotrophic» lifestyle.
The question of how Trichodesmium cyanobacteria are reacting to the changing
ocean makes a big difference
in predicting how other marine
life, from whales to mere specks of floating
plankton, will react, too.
SEE ALSO Algal Blooms, Harmful; Algal Blooms
in the
Ocean; Carbon Dioxide
in the
Ocean and Atmosphere; El NiÑo and La NiÑA; Food from the Sea;
Life in Extreme Water Environments; Human Health and the
Ocean; Human Health and Water;
Ocean Biogeochemistry;
Ocean Currents;
Plankton; Pollution by Invasive Species; Pollution of the
Ocean by Sewage, Nutrients, AND Chemicals.
Plus
plankton expert Dr. Michael Behrenfeld: is the foundation of
ocean life in trouble?
Ocean Plastic Will Be Found in 99 Percent of Seabirds by 2050 Plastic pollution in the ocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant wh
Ocean Plastic Will Be Found
in 99 Percent of Seabirds by 2050 Plastic pollution
in the
ocean is like a floating minefield to marine life, from microscopic plankton to giant wh
ocean is like a floating minefield to marine
life, from microscopic
plankton to giant whales.
Plastic pollution
in the
ocean is like a floating minefield to marine
life, from microscopic
plankton to giant whales.
Interesting Algae Micro-organisms on Electron Microscopy by Jeffrey Dach MD Coccolithophore (phylum
Plankton) This is
Plankton, a one - celled plant (using photosynthesis)
living in the
ocean.
Plankton, the tiny organisms at the bottom of the
ocean food chain that so much of marine
life depends on, drift with the
ocean currents, but sometimes come together
in dense patches under the surface that can later rise to the surface as red tides.
Different
plankton populations
living at different places
in the
ocean.
But seen the environmental global CRISIS of GLOBAL WARMING and its devastating climatological impact, I would recommend as an environmental policy - expert that Both NATURAL
plankton will be bred
in shallow waters as carbondioxide inhibitors
in a large volume on the one hand and let nature goes its course
in the seas and
oceans so that sea - organisms /
life - forms / mamals will not become extinct due to (for them) food poisoning.
But
ocean experts have increasingly warned that the direct chemical impact on marine
life, as carbon dioxide dissolves
in water and lowers its pH, could profoundly disrupt ecosystems by interfering with the growth of reefs and shell - forming
plankton.
Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes
in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included
in population studies; major poleward shifts
in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (
in the south) and decreases (
in the north) of the abundance of
plankton, which forms the critical base of the
ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase
in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.
Lightening everywhere that people actually
live (another idea from the Hamwey paper) gets you 0.19 W / m ²; increasing the area of
plankton blooms that seed the creation of clouds
in parts of the southern
ocean gives you just 0.016 W / m ² (and that may be an overestimate) and restricting yourself to just creating shinier cities gives you no more than 0.01 W / m ².
Sharks sit atop the nautical food chain and subsist on midlevel
ocean life, which
in turn feeds on
plankton, whose biological processes absorb carbon dioxide.
Plus
plankton expert Dr. Michael Behrenfeld: is the foundation of
ocean life in trouble?