Jellyfish-Like Creatures May Play Major Role in Fate of Carbon Dioxide in the Oc
Date: Friday, June 30 @ 21:43:15 PDT
Topic: Enviromental Headlines; Climate Change
Transparent jellyfish-like creatures known as a salps, considered by many a low member in the ocean food web, may be more important to the fate of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the ocean than previously thought.
In the May issue of Deep Sea Research, scientists report that salps, about the size of a human thumb, swarming by the billions in "hot spots" may be transporting tons of carbon per day from the ocean surface to the deep sea and keep it from re-entering the atmosphere.
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