Marine researchers are rewriting how plankton drive ocean carbon storage, with implications that reach from textbook taxonomy to climate models still relying on outdated assumptions about who does the work. The post The microscopic ocean species doing roughly five percent of the planet’s photosynthesis wasn’t even described in textbooks until the late 1980s, and the carbon budgets attributed to it have been quietly rewritten ever since appeared first on Space Daily .
The microscopic ocean species doing roughly five percent of the planet’s photosynthesis wasn’t even described in textbooks until the late 1980s, and the carbon budgets attributed to it have been quietly rewritten ever since
