Tuesday, May 7, 2019

With plankton threatened the food chain is in danger!


PLANKTONS


Several major problems are causing decreasing numbers of plankton:

•Ocean acidification as a result of climate change and pollution.

•90% of whales are disappearing, as the giant sea creatures travel the ocean, they boost plankton numbers.

•Fungicides, herbicides, insecticides and other chemicals directly affect phytoplankton and zooplankton.

Life on Earth depends on the food chain working correctly. If it starts to malfunction, then nothing can work properly.

All it takes is for one species to disappear to upset the balance of an ecosystem for good. However, when we know that 55% of the wildlife has disappeared in only 40 years, we can start asking ourselves questions about our continued survival soon.

Plankton is the food base for many marine species while these marine species are a food base for land-based species like humans. As a result, it could be argued that our survival is linked to the survival of plankton.
Plankton and the Amazon rain-forest ate the two lungs for the planet and our oxygen engines.

However, every year, our oceans lose their capacity to absorb 190 million tons of carbon which is causing the progressive disappearance of plankton.


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