coccolithophores in A Sentence

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    To test the resilience of the Coccolithophores, scientists took live samples and put them in tanks of ocean water.

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    Since Coccolithophores are“carbon fixers” that take carbon dioxide out of the environment, some scientists and engineers proposed using them as a solution to global emissions and climate change, Eagle said.

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    Finding out how Coccolithophores reacted to changes in prehistoric climates could give scientists better vision of what may happen as our contemporary climate changes in decades and centuries to come.

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    Scaling up an operation that would use Coccolithophores to make a global impact would present not just technological hurdles, but could negatively impact oceans in ways that are hard to predict.

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    But Coccolithophores, a single-celled plankton, have an outsized effect on oceans due to their sheer quantity- their blooms are visible from space- and because of the fundamental role they play in food chains and the carbon cycle.

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    Because of their place at the bottom of food chains, Eagle said, major shifts in the numbers and location of Coccolithophores would likely affect creatures higher up- all the way to apex predators- which all depend on the single-celled creatures, directly or indirectly, for sustenance.

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