Word: phytoes
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ocean depths sometimes churns up to the surface. Laden with nutrients from decomposed sea life that has settled to the ocean deeps, these rising currents possess extraordinary fertilizing power. Once they reach the upper level of the ocean, where sunlight penetrates, they turn it into a garden of phyto-plankton-the tiny floating plants that are the bottom link in the sea's food chain. Actually the "upwelling" occurs only in a few areas like the extremely rich fishery off Peru. Much of the rest of the ocean is what one scientist recently called a "biological desert...
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