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What would happen if most of the world's ocean phytoplankton died?
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∙ 7y ago
What's known as a Cascade Effect would occur. Any species that feeds on the Phytoplankton and Zooplankton would become extinct. The filter-feeders would most likely be killed first, then the species that eats filter-feeders and so on. Most, if not all, sea life will be eradicated and leave us with no sushi.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 12y agoAlgae account for approximately 80% of Earth's oxygen, you do the math.
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∙ 12y agoSince the protists are at the bottom of the food chain, just about every animal in the ocean with die if all protists died.
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∙ 11y agoThe coral would die and so would the animals that need the coral for food and shelter
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∙ 6y agoif the phytoplankton was killed the other things that eat it will not get their energy anymore because where the other things get their energy from is from the phytoplankton
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