{"id":23121,"date":"2025-03-03T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23121"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T10:26:35","slug":"rising-temperatures-are-scrambling-the-base-of-the-ocean-food-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23121","title":{"rendered":"Rising Temperatures Are Scrambling the Base of the Ocean Food Web"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Humans are living in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms are spread across the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, and are among the most abundant forms of life on Earth.<\/p>\n

But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them.<\/p>\n

A year ago, NASA launched a satellite that provided the most detailed view yet of the diversity and distribution of phytoplankton. Its insights should help scientists understand the changing dynamics of life in the ocean.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you like breathing? Do you like eating? If your answer is yes for either of them, then you care about phytoplankton,\u201d said Jeremy Werdell, the lead scientist for the satellite program, called PACE, which stands for \u201cPlankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Historically, research from ships has captured limited snapshots in time, offering only glimpses of the ever-changing oceans. The advent of satellites gave a fuller picture, but one still limited, like looking through glasses with a green filter.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know it\u2019s a garden, you know it\u2019s pretty, you know it\u2019s plants, but you don\u2019t know which plants,\u201d explained Ivona Cetinic, a NASA oceanographer. The PACE satellite effectively removes the filter and finally reveals all the colors of the garden, she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like seeing all the flowers of the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Humans are living in a plankton world. These minuscule organisms are spread across the oceans, covering nearly three-quarters of the planet, and are among the most abundant forms of life on Earth.But a warming world is throwing plankton into disarray and threatening the entire marine food chain that is built on them.A year ago, NASA launched a satellite that provided the most detailed view yet of the diversity and distribution of phytoplankton. Its insights should help scientists understand the changing dynamics of life in the ocean.\u201cDo you like breathing? Do you like eating? If your answer is yes for either of them, then you care about phytoplankton,\u201d said Jeremy Werdell, the lead scientist for the satellite program, called PACE, which stands for \u201cPlankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem.\u201dHistorically, research from ships has captured limited snapshots in time, offering only glimpses of the ever-changing oceans. The advent of satellites gave a fuller picture, but one still limited, like looking through glasses with a green filter.\u201cYou know it\u2019s a garden, you know it\u2019s pretty, you know it\u2019s plants, but you don\u2019t know which plants,\u201d explained Ivona Cetinic, a NASA oceanographer. The PACE satellite effectively removes the filter and finally reveals all the colors of the garden, she said. \u201cIt\u2019s like seeing all the flowers of the ocean.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23123,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23124,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23121\/revisions\/23124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}