Fish have enormous nutrient impacts on marine ecosystems, study finds

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 17:01 in Biology & Nature

Fish play a far more important role as contributors of nutrients to marine ecosystems than previously thought. In a pair of articles, they show that fish contribute more nutrients to their local ecosystems than any other source -- enough to cause changes in the growth rates of the organisms at the base of the food web.

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