Man has violated nature's laws of the sea

The Autònoma de Barcelona Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) of the University of Barcelona has conducted a new international study to study the biomass distribution of all organisms in the ocean, from bacteria to whales

When decision makers gathered in Glasgow to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, people increasingly realized that the impact of humans on the environment is going global and it is becoming more and more urgent

Scientists from Spain ICTA-UAB, Germany's Max Planck Institute for Science and Mathematics, Queensland University of Technology in Australia, Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and McGill University in Canada using advanced ocean observations and large-scale meta-analysis have shown that humans The impact has had the main consequences of larger marine species, and has also greatly changed the largest scale model of life-the model encompasses the entire marine biodiversity, from bacteria to whales

Early samples of marine plankton biomass 50 years ago led researchers to hypothesize that plankton biomass of all sizes was about the same

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Their method focuses on 12 major groups of aquatic organisms, covering approximately 33,000 ocean grid points

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Compared with the uniform biomass spectrum of the ocean before 1850, the current investigation of the spectrum reveals the human impact on the marine biomass through a new lens

"The human impact on the ocean is more dramatic than just catching fish