Warren Currie 🦠🦐Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
#ClimateChange is expected to modify food-webs in the oceans, including in nutrition. In an MIT modeling study scientists found that under heating scenarios, phytoplankon can shift from protein to carbohydrate and lipid dominated cell composition, which they have termed "fast-food ocean". This would happen partly due to sea-ice loss and light change, potentially leading to an elemental composition mismatch with zooplankton grazers.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/fast-food-ocean-climate-change-is-draining-seas-nutrition/
#science
#ClimateChange is expected to modify food-webs in the oceans, including in nutrition. In an MIT modeling study scientists found that under heating scenarios, phytoplankon can shift from protein to carbohydrate and lipid dominated cell composition, which they have termed "fast-food ocean". This would happen partly due to sea-ice loss and light change, potentially leading to an elemental composition mismatch with zooplankton grazers.
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/fast-food-ocean-climate-change-is-draining-seas-nutrition/
#science
