Phytoplankton Growth & Nutrient Cycling
Nutrient fertilization of the ocean is a set of geoengineering proposals to grow large swathes of phytoplankton by dumping nutrients into the ocean. While increasing marine food production, it will also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by plankton drawing it down. Phytoplankton are an important factor to their ecosystem because the make food and produce energy. Not only making food, but plankton themselves are food for other species. They are a key part of the ecosystem and this world because if we provide phytoplankton with enough nutrients to help the population grow, they could potentially bring down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and lower the levels which would benefit us humans.
If seawater is mixed with nutrients and iron, then phytoplankton will grow faster, and produce more because phytoplankton need both nutrients and iron, not just nutrients itself.
If seawater is mixed with nutrients and iron, then phytoplankton will grow faster, and produce more because phytoplankton need both nutrients and iron, not just nutrients itself.
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