TinyBlueGreen

Blue-Green Is Life

"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take..."

Breathe freely, tiny plankton

Plankton Climate Dance

2015

Big Trouble Ahead for Ocean Plankton

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References

Wikipedia -- Phytoplankton obtain energy through the process of photosynthesis and must therefore live in the well-lit surface layer (termed the euphotic zone) of an ocean, sea, lake, or other body of water. Phytoplankton account for half of all photosynthetic activity on Earth.

Phytoplankton are responsible for much of the oxygen present in the Earth’s atmosphere – half of the total amount produced by all plant life.

See Prochlorococcus

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