Increases in Certain Algae Could Impact Carbon Cycle (4 of 7) (IMAGE)

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Increases in Certain Algae Could Impact Carbon Cycle (4 of 7)

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Coccolithophore aggregate from the Atlantic Meridional Transect cruise (AMT 24, November 2015): Umbellosphaera tenuis; Emiliania huxleyi; Syracosphaera protrudens; Discosphaera tubifera. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 27, 2015 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Rivero-Calle at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Multidecadal increase in North Atlantic coccolithophores and the potential role of rising CO2."

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Amy Wyeth- Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences

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