One of the big questions we've got about being down in Antarctica is looking at how climate change is going to impact plankton.
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“What’s important about plankton is we are so totally reliant on them, more so than whales. Whales might look great. But it is the Plankton that are king”
Plankton are the grass of the ocean and sustain virtually all marine life. So without the grass we don’t get the growth of the grazers. We don’t get the big fish, we don’t get the lovely whales, the porpoises and all the other creatures we love to see in the ocean.
So, what will happen if there are changes in the world of these tiny creatures? Could even small changes have huge impacts?
Join us as we follow a group of NIWA New Zealand scientists investigating various aspects of these unappreciated organisms.
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