Ocean phytoplankton and algae produce 70-80% of the earths atmospheric oxygen. Why is tree conservation for oxygen so popular over ocean conservation then?
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I think also a consideration could be the impact of increasing the mass of algae. More trees in an area seem unlikely to have a negative impact on things; certainly they compete with each other for nutrients/sunlight/water but they don’t hurt the animals around them. We’ve seen how blooms of algae can produce a situation where there are not enough animal algae consumers to manage the load, the algae and bacterial populations climb, O2 is depleted as a consequence of the bacterial degradation of the algae and now you’ve got a dead zone where no life succeeds. We do this “accidentally” all the time.
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