Global warming is being blamed for the 40% decline in the ocean’s phytoplankton, which is an essential part of the marine food chain: If there is no more plankton, there will be no more fish. Not only that, phytoplankton produce half the oxygen we breathe.
A team of scientists has mapped and analyzed global biodiversity patterns for over 11,000 marine species ranging from tiny zooplankton to sharks and whales. The researchers found striking similarities for all thirteen groups studied–all of them related to ocean temperature. These results imply that future changes in ocean temperature, such as those due to climate change, may greatly affect the distribution of life in the sea. And oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred.
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