Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Plankton shift

Scientists estimate that one of the stars of the ocean food chain shows an unexpected predeliction for a more acidic ocean http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/416/1
They suggest total biomass of the phytoplankton has increased by 40%. I'd like to know how much this represents in actual mass - 10's or 100's of kilotonnes?

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