The smallest plants and creatures in the ocean power an entire food web, including the fish that much of the world’s population depend on for food, work and cultural identity. In a paper published in Science Advances, NOAA Fisheries researcher Jason Link and colleague Reg Watson from the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies suggest that scientists and resource managers need to focus on whole ecosystems rather than soley on individual populations.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org