Tiny Organisms Churn Ocean waters

[SeniorCitizen007]

Swarms of tiny oceanic organisms known collectively as zooplankton may have an outsize influence on their environment. New research shows that clusters of centimeter-long individuals, each beating its tiny feathered legs, can, in aggregate, create powerful currents that could potentially mix water over hundreds of meters in depth. This effect could potentially influence everything from distribution of ocean nutrients to climate models.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebn6qyJAeY

 

[pantheory]

This is an interesting possibility. The up-welling of nutrients from deeper ocean waters could bring up more nutrients for zooplankton enabling them to grow and reproduce faster. Zooplankton  are the bottom of the food chain for most oceanic life. The more zooplankton, the more fish and oceanic life in general. Secondly, the deeper the waters, the colder they are. Bringing up deeper and cooler ocean waters would cool the surface winds of the oceans to some extent which would lessen global temperatures. More research will be needed to determine the realities of this process. It has been preliminary determined that by man adding land based nutrients to ocean waters, especially in the far north, would result in greatly increased zooplankton growth in those areas. Such plant based zooplankton can consume a great deal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as well as increasing fish and oceanic animal proliferation in such areas.

[Joshpantera]

On 4/19/2018 at 12:40 AM, SeniorCitizen007 said:

Swarms of tiny oceanic organisms known collectively as zooplankton may have an outsize influence on their environment. New research shows that clusters of centimeter-long individuals, each beating its tiny feathered legs, can, in aggregate, create powerful currents that could potentially mix water over hundreds of meters in depth. This effect could potentially influence everything from distribution of ocean nutrients to climate models.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebn6qyJAeY

 

 

Very interesting study.