#phytoplankton

[jayebat]

bioluminescent phytoplankton glowing off the southern coast of Australia

[princeofthegrasslands]

May i present to you

Diatoms

And an intruder there in the corner

[eddieintheocean]

Its such a shame that it's not feasible for phytoplankton to be megafauna(flora?) Because imagine how much more insane it would be to be on a boat during a coccolithophore bloom and just see this big fuck off spheres with plated armour

[unbfacts]

In Alaska, the Kasatochi volcano blew up in 2008 and sent ash far over the North Pacific Ocean. That ash had iron in it, and iron is like food for tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton. When the ash fell into iron-poor water, the phytoplankton grew very fast, and NASA saw the ocean’s chlorophyll jump by about 150%. Chlorophyll is the green stuff plants use to make food, so more chlorophyll means more tiny ocean plants were growing.

[marine-gifs]

Aerial shot of a phytoplankton bloom. Filmed in the North Sea. From Sea in Motion - Wonder of the North Sea (2023).

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

A Colorful Glimpse

Peeking between the clouds, satellites caught a glimpse of a massive phytoplankton bloom off the coast of Greenland in May 2024.  (Image credit: L. Dauphin; via NASA Earth Observatory)

[infestedguest]

CLICK HERE to find HOT PENNATE DIATOMS in YOUR AREA!*

*compound microscope not included

[mindblowingscience]

Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic | CBC News

Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of phytoplankton are respondi

Two main types of phytoplankton have been decreasing in biomass in the North Atlantic by two per cent each year for the past 60 years, a new study has found. Dalhousie University researchers analyzed data collected over more than half a century to assess how two types of phytoplankton — diatoms and dinoflagellates — are responding to climate change. The analysis found that while the makeup and distribution of phytoplankton varied in different parts of the North Atlantic, overall, there was a decrease over the period, from 1960 to 2017, except for the eastern and western continental shelves.

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