PHYTOPLANKTON -  Ocean Life

Scientists tell us that over the past century there has been an alarming decline in phytoplankton, the microscopic plant life that populates our ocean surfaces.  If this trend continues it will ultimately have an extreme and devastating negative effect upon our world, not only in the areas where ocean waters are monitored to record increasing temperatures and changes but throughout the rest of the globe.

Phytoplankton populations help to absorb the gases responsible for the so called “greenhouse” symptoms in our changing world. Interruption to their healthy function will prove damaging to the whole ocean life food chain.

Normal function and health of these minute plants depends upon existing patterns of wind and current that bears their nutrient. Any interruption to their numbers will increase our carbon problems and lower the quality of our atmosphere.

Scientists’ serious attention to this problem of decreasing sea life, upon which so much depends, is indicating complexity both in the causes and possible correction of phytoplankton decline. It would seem to involve not only temperature and sea currents but the affect of ice melts at the Poles, particularly in the Antarctic.

 

 

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