Warren Currie 🦠🦐5d ago

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Recent news has documented warming in polar regions reducing upwelling of cold nutrient rich water and thus algae production. Researchers investigated the change in carbon to chlorophyll ratio to determine nutrient stress.

The genus is Prochlorococcus, a cyanobacteria found across the world's oceans. Because it is so tiny (0.6 micron) it passes through most filters we used, and was only described in 1986 by Sallie (Penny) Chisholm.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-nasa-satellites-reveal-major-ocean.html
#science

WordmarkJun 12
what #elnino means for the #planet and specific regions #climatechange, what would be really bad is decline in microscopic #phytoplankton #plankton absorb most #CO2 overall each year through photosynthesis (and drive the ocean’s “biological pump”), while coastal “blue carbon” #ecosystems — mangroves, seagrasses and salt marshes — store the most carbon long‑term per unit area by burying it in sediments
#ocean https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-prepare-el-nino
Show threadkkarhanJun 12

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Students for Future GöttingenJun 10

RE: https://mstdn.social/@compoundchem/116716533544196361

The #climatecrisis has multiple negative effects on the maritime #biosphere.

The rise in sea temperature receives most attention, but #oceanacidification poses a major risk to the #maritime #ecology as well - threatening the stability of the #foodchain in the world's #oceans.

Within this century the skeletons of maritime organisms, such as #corals, will be at risk to erode faster then they can be sustained. This will also affect #plankton which forms the basis of the maritime #food chain.

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Show threadGokul DasJun 4

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) is a massive #ocean_current in the #AtlanticOcean, driven by #temperature and #salinity changes (#thermohaline circulation). It influences global #weather significantly:

- Warms up #Arctic, East #Canada, #BritishIsles & #Nordic region
- Cools down #GulfofMexico, #Amazon & #Africa
- Drives #rains in all these regions
- Supports a huge #plankton #biomass, that:
- Supports higher #marine_life
- Acts as #CO2 #carbon_sink.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐May 31
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Today's organism is the primarily freshwater dinoflagellate phytoplankon genus Ceratium, characterized by cellulose armored plates, two flagella, and horns, resembling Eiffel towers. These large, tough algae can form dense blooms which few zooplankton graze, and can cause oxygen depletion. These 7 species are mixotrophic, so graze on other algae or bacteria during blooms, such as happens in one of our monitoring sites of Hamilton Harbour, Ontario. #science #ecology
EgbertMay 29

Climate change disrupts the arctic food chain by removing a key nutrient, nitrate, from sea water. This limits the growth of plankton, thus less food is available in the food chain.

#climatechange #arctic #plankton #nitrate

https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/arctic-food-chain-hit-as-tipping-point-passed

Arctic food chain hit as tipping point passed | News | The University of Edinburgh

An irreversible shift in the chemical make-up of the Arctic Ocean driven by climate change is disrupting the region’s food chain, a study suggests.

The University of Edinburgh
Warren Currie 🦠🦐May 24
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
This is likely Earth's most common metazoan (animal). Meet Oithona similis, a small predatory, cyclopoid copepod. It is highly tolerant of temperature and salinity ranges, having a cosmopolitan distribution within every ocean, from poles to tropics, and is common in the epi to mesopelagic zones. Densities range from hundreds to several thousand per m³ of water and can be 30% of total zooplankton. There may be 100 Oithona for every insect on the planet! #science
NikolaTeslaMay 23

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