Could climate change and biodiversity of marine plankton in North Atlantic affect carbon cycle?
Friday, May 28, 2010 - 09:41
in Earth & Climate
Over the last decades, global warming has been accompanied by an increase in the taxonomic biodiversity of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean and a reduction in the average size of these organisms, according to researchers. They demonstrate that this structural modification of biological systems could bring about an alteration to the carbon sink in the North Atlantic and a reduction in the presence of subarctic fish such as cod.