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2025-05-17 13:30:08

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Plankton is fundamental to the functioning of aquatic #ecosystems. An example was seen in the 2013 deaths of #Florida bottlenose dolphins. Dense harmful phytoplankton

image/jpeg a sleek, grey, bottlenosed dolphin comes partially out of the water with a fish captured it in its mouth. Photo from Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. https://sarasotadolphin.org/tangled-food-web/

Scientists link a phytoplankton bloom to starving dolphins in Florida
A phytoplankton bloom damaged habitats, deprived bottlenose dolphins of nutritious prey, and led to a sharp rise in strandings and deaths.