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		AnimalMuppet on Jan 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Will Happen in the 2020s What's going to cause the crash of phytoplankton? Rising CO2, I presume, but by what mechanism?

Symmetry on Jan 1, 2020 [–]

Possibly ocean acidification could damage the cell walls of diatoms, which make up a fair fraction of phytoplankton? But I don't see how that could have been locked in 30 years ago.

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