Unveiling the Ocean’s Hidden Green: Robot Explorers Reveal Missing Half of Phytoplankton

Researchers calculate phytoplankton biomass on Earth: About 346 million tonnes or around 250 million elephants. Using data from BGC-Argo floats, scientists have mapped the global distribution of phytoplankton carbon biomass, totaling approximately 314 Tg C. This approach reveals that traditional satellite methods, focusing only on surface chlorophyll, significantly underrepresent the total biomass, particularly subsurface layers, [...]

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