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Plankton trawl reveals ten times species

2015-05-28 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SciDevNet: The number of known plankton species floating in our oceans has increased ten-fold thanks to an international study aiming to understand the impact of climate change. Scientists from the Tara Oceans initiative say that this is a first step towards cataloguing the full diversity of marine life, which could in turn help to predict how stocks of fish and other marine resources will be affected in a warmer world. Plankton is crucial to climate modelling, because phytoplankton, tiny plant organisms,...

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