Warren Currie 🦠🦐<p>Weekend <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Plankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Plankton</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Factoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Factoid</span></a> 🦠🦐<br>With spring 🌱 upon us in the northern hemisphere, it is the time for the spring bloom in many lakes and oceans. To grow, <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/phytoplankton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phytoplankton</span></a> require <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/nutrients" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nutrients</span></a> and <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/light" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>light</span></a>, so start reproducing rapidly due to an abundance of nutrients mixed in the water column and increased light intensity 🌞. Zooplankton grazers have yet to increase, and warming conditions help to retain algae near the surface euphotic zone via stratification. <br><a href="https://serc.carleton.edu/eet/phytoplankton/primer.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">serc.carleton.edu/eet/phytopla</span><span class="invisible">nkton/primer.html</span></a><br><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a></p>