Phytoplankton
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Well there's an invisible pasture of microscopic photosynthesizers called
phytoplankton
that fill the upper 200 meters of the ocean, and they feed the entire open ocean ecosystem.
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But what makes the Ross Sea important is the vast sea of pack ice that in the spring and summer provides a wealth of
phytoplankton
and krill that supports what, till recently, has been a virtually intact near-shore ecosystem.
And what they're finding is that even trace amounts of oil and dispersants can be highly toxic to phytoplankton, which is very bad news, because so much life depends on it.
And in the spring, when the sun returns to the ice, it forms the phytoplankton, grows under that ice, and then you get bigger sheets of seaweed, and then you get the zooplankton feeding on all that life.
Indirect measurements have shown that the global
phytoplankton
population may have decreased by as much as 40 percent between 1950 and 2010 because of climate change.
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