The adjacent coastline of KwaZulu-Natal has a humid subtropical climate with summer rainfall, and the freshwater and riverine sedimentary discharge into the region is significant and affects turbidity and plankton blooms.
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Some of the best conditions for diving at Casino Point occur during September and October, when the water cools by a few degrees, causing a drop in plankton blooms that improves visibility, Sadler said.
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The Victorian Fisheries Research Institute said the unprecedented plankton bloom was swept to the surface by a huge upwelling of deep cold water, possibly connected with the El Nino effect, over the last month.
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While the city government has done a lot to improve sewage treatment, it has done little to enforce its usage, and the worsening jellyfish bloom is probably a consequence of the resulting plankton blooms.
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Also, they noted, the iron-fed plankton bloom was not tracked long enough to assess whether the carbon harvested from the air sank into the deep sea or was released once again in carbon dioxide gas.
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In order to account for this lack of nitrogen to the surface, there are organisms that are capable of nitrogen fixation in the NPSG . Trichodesmium is one species capable of nitrogen fixation that is found in many surface plankton blooms.
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Of the carbon-rich biomass generated by plankton blooms, half ( or more ) is generally consumed by grazing organisms ( zooplankton, krill, small fish, etc . ) but 20 to 30 % sinks below into the colder water strata below the thermocline.
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A plankton bloom following one severe Lake Michigan storm lasted a " couple of weeks " and led to a big improvement in the growth of larval perch, which fed on the algae, said Cuhel, who was not part of Babin's research team.
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Phytoplankton have a complex effect on cloud formation via the release of substances such as dimethyl sulfide ( DMS ) that are converted to sulfate aerosols in the atmosphere, providing cloud condensation nuclei, or CCN . But the effect of small scale plankton blooms on overall DMS production is unknown.
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If that happens, the tags'data will be combined with satellite data of sea surface temperature and plankton blooms that are the base of the ocean food chain " to develop an integrated picture of how the bluefin is moving through the environment to better understand why it goes to the places it goes,"
