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South Pacific plankton go berserk after minor cyclone

The biggest phytoplankton bloom ever recorded in the South Pacific Ocean was triggered by a small but lingering storm.
Phytoplankton bloom seen from space in The North Sea.

A phytoplankton bloom seen from space. A bloom triggered by a cyclone in 2019 covered nearly 250,000 square kilometres in the South Pacific Ocean. Credit: Alamy

Tropical cyclones might have left their mark in plankton-rich layers on the sea floor1.

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Nature 615, 564 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00753-3

References

  1. Russell, P. & Horvat, C. Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, e2022GL100821 (2023).

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