Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at Stanford University say they have found an aquatic highway that lets nutrients from Earth's belly sweep up to surface waters off the coast of Antarctica and stimulate explosive growth of microscopic ocean algae. Their study, published June 5 in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that hydrothermal vents—openings in the seafloor that gush scorching hot streams of mineral-rich fluid—may affect life near the ocean's surface and the global carbon cycle more than previously thought. Mathieu Ardyna, a postdoctoral scholar and the study's lead autho...
https://phys.org/news/2019-06-deep-ocean-vents-fuel-massive-phytoplankton.html
2019-06-05 10:10:27Z
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