by DarkSyde
New studies show that as much as 40 percent of the ocean's critical
phytoplankton have disappeared.
In the long-term, nothing
predicted the numbers of phytoplankton better than the surface temperature of
the seas. Phytoplankton need sunlight to grow, so they’re constrained to the
upper layers of the ocean and depends on nutrients welling up from below. But
warmer waters are less likely to mix in this way, which starves the
phytoplankton and limits their growth.
