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Big Trouble Ahead for Ocean's Microbes http://grist.org/news/big-trouble-ahead-for-oceans-tiny-microbes/

Phytoplankton are the foundation of the oceanic food chain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton

The Food Chain's Weak Link: Tiny Ocean Plants Dying http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128823662

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Enormous Plankton database -- May 2015 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32831814

Dr Bowler: "It is temperature that determines what sort of communities of organisms we find. If we look at our data and we see what organisms are there, we can predict with 97% probability the temperature of the water they are living in.

"These organisms are most sensitive to temperature, more than anything else, and with changing temperatures as a result of climate change we are likely to see changes in this community."

The researchers say that this scientific analysis is just the beginning. They are making their findings freely available to the scientific community to gain a better understanding of this vital but unseen underwater world.

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