Climate change is expected to alter the ocean’s temperature, salinity, acidity, and currents. What would you want to investigate to find out how these changes would affect the way oceanic bacteria will process dissolved organic carbon in the future?
Even though an individual phytoplankton is tiny, there are many of them in the ocean. Their combined effect on atmospheric CO2 is comparable to that of every plant on land. ... Then they exude altered dissolved organic carbon into the water (the bacterial equivalent of pee and poop) and respire carbon dioxide into the air.
