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Why Marine
Phytoplankton: NATURE'S PERFECT TOTAL FOOD
Marine Phytoplankton
are known as the ocean's fundamental food web.
Marine phytoplankton
consists of an immense variety of single cell
plants found in the surface upper
zone of the
aquatic system.
Phytoplankton have
ability to transform inorganic minerals and
sea water, natural warmth, and the Earth's sunlight
and carbon dioxide into usable vitamins,
proteins, amino acids, and carbohydrates, in
essence creating food for the
global ecosystem. Marine phytoplankton
are responsible for creating
the majority of our
planet's oxygen. Marine
phytoplankton
"Grasses of the
Sea" nourish the cells completely. Because of
photosynthesis
our
diverse
marine biology
ocean
plants take in both the sea and the sun and
produce nutrients.
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Phytoplankton
What is
marine algae? The surfaces of the sea are full of
microscopic
phytoplankton one cell drifting plants which convert
energy from the sun and the elements extracted
from the water into precious substances
necessary for life. This wondrous natural
reaction is known as photosynthesis and the
diverse group of
plankton organisms are collectively
known as
micro algae. The
Euphotic Zone
upper sunlit layers of the ocean supports all
marine
PHYTOPLANKTON plant primary producers in
the marine food web including
the coccolithophores and the dinoflagellates in
addition to the cyanobacteria. However, the most well known of the
algae phytoplankton
and the largest contributor to the food web
are the unicellular diatoms which inhabit nutrient-rich cold
waters such as in British Columbia, Canada.
One characteristic they all have in common is that they
convert nutrients and CO2 into carbohydrates
using solar energy accounting for nearly 95% of
the ocean's primary production of oceanic
phytoplankton biomass.
Phytoplankton are
bio diverse
organisms varying in shape and size in the field
of
marine organisms.
Sea Phytoplankton
have been an important part of our ocean health
for millions and millions of years and have
changed life as we know it.
Marine
microalgae create
the majority of the oxygen in our atmosphere and
when they're spent they form the
sediments at
the ocean bottom. Though amazingly small
individual cells their vast amounts greatly influence
the world's climate.
Plankton Research
continues on a global basis gathering
plankton data
to monitor
marine life and
the overall health of the oceans.
Sometimes referred to as
"Mother Earth's
Milk" phytoplankton is now available for all
mankind to benefit from in a natural marine
phytoplankton formulation. There is good
reason why
biologists study these
simple marine organisms and
ultimately are focused upon solving the
earths human medical problems by studying simple
sea creatures.
The discovery of marine phytoplankton for human
consumption may very well turn out to be the
most important discovery in the history of
nutrition. An amazing free floating single
cell plant which is invisible to the human eye
but so important that every living being in the
ocean depends on its health and abundance for
survival. The harvesting of the marine
phytoplankton is not an easy task. In
order to do it properly you need the right
conditions. A fluctuation of 5 degrees
cold or hot could mean damage to the algae cell
or death of the cell. Also if the lighting
conditions are not perfect the algae can lose a
lot or all of its nutritional integrity.
It is well known that the food chain begins with
plant species in the aqua environment with
phytoplankton at the forefront.
Phytoplankton, a microscopic marine plant are
essentially photosynthetic organisms that
synthesize organic substances from an external
energy source. These microscopic sea
plants are super concentrated in a green pigment
called chlorophyll. Photosynthesis, the
process of converting simple inorganic chemicals
into complex organic substances, is a
critical part of energy production and
recycling. The end result of
photosynthesis is the production of energy
nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, and
fats, from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water.
Energy nutrients are critical to human health.
Global Environmental Climate and Phytoplankton
Interrelationship
Studies from satellite data over a period of 10
years have documented and shown for the first
time that
Global Warming is
Devastating to Marine Life which
endangers the planetary oxygen supply and
primary production of sea plankton populations.
All of the world's oceans could become affected
by the reduction of microscopic plants and
phytoplankton. In contrast whenever global
climate average temperatures are on the rise the
marine plant life subsequently increases. Ocean color
is being used as a gauge to record ocean temperatures by
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Green
oceans with colder sea surface temperatures
represent a higher level of phytoplankton plant
activity as contrasted to lower productivity of
phytoplankton in
warmer blue seas. Increased efforts are
being conducted in regional ecological modeling
to better understand the marine algae
physiological ecology and carbon cycling's
relationship to climate change and ocean
productivity which has a direct relationship to
the density of chlorophyll. For a
short period in the late 1990's during strong El
Nino periods the plant growth in the oceans was
high but for the last seven years warming has
increased. The world plankton biomass is
consumed and recycled every few days which makes
it easier to detect than biomass on land.
The catalyst causing this new phenomenon is
rising carbon dioxide in levels that overwhelm
phytoplankton. In the atmosphere as carbon
dioxide rises the climate warms and
phytoplankton production goes down reducing
ocean plants carbon dioxide uptake. Due to
CO2 increases in the atmosphere the ocean
acidity also increases causing unexpected
consequences on marine production of dimethyl
sulfide or DMS and leading to three times the
normal ocean acidity level in ocean surface
waters. The link between
phytoplankton ecosystems and increasing ocean
acidity could be key to better understanding
future health of marine organisms.
Why Plankton
Phytoplankton contains almost every
element you need for sustaining life:
Contains nine essential AMINO ACIDS: Essential
FATTY ACIDS including Omega 3 & 6; Vitamins A,B,C,D; Macro and trace minerals are contained
in
phytoplankton all in a balanced natural
bioavailable form.
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