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Giant plankton gains long-due attention
2016-04-21 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A team of marine biologists and oceanographers from CNRS, UPMC[1] and the German organization GEOMAR have revealed the importance in all the world's oceans of a group of large planktonic organisms called Rhizaria, which had previously been completely underestimated. According to their findings, these organisms make up 33% of the total abundance of large zooplankton in the world's oceans, and account for 5% of the overall marine biomass. The study was carried out on samples collected during eleven...
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