Phytoplankton

Phytoplankton is a keystone plant species and is the basis for all life in the ocean.

Alexia Parks: Your Life Depends Upon This Tiny Plant Alexia Parks 2010

Phytoplankton is a keystone plant species and is the basis for all life in the ocean.

Alexia Parks: Your Life Depends Upon This Tiny Plant Alexia Parks 2010

Phytoplankton is a keystone plant species and is the basis for all life in the ocean.

Alexia Parks: Your Life Depends Upon This Tiny Plant Alexia Parks 2010

Phytoplankton is a keystone plant species and is the basis for all life in the ocean, responsible for producing 70% of the oxygen of the planet; the very air that we breathe.

Alexia Parks: Your Life Depends Upon This Tiny Plant Alexia Parks 2010

Phytoplankton is a keystone plant species and is the basis for all life in the ocean, responsible for producing 70% of the oxygen of the planet; the very air that we breathe.

Alexia Parks: Your Life Depends Upon This Tiny Plant Alexia Parks 2010

Phytoplankton are apparently what lives most abundantly in and around the gyres.

Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011

Phytoplankton are apparently what lives most abundantly in and around the gyres.

Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011

Phytoplankton are apparently what lives most abundantly in and around the gyres.

Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011

Phytoplankton are apparently what lives most abundantly in and around the gyres.

Brandon Boyd: Sustainability Isn't a Four-Letter Word -- It's a Fourteen Letter Word Brandon Boyd 2011

Phytoplankton in the ocean provide more than half of our oxygen and provides the basis of the primary protein for more than a billion people.

Wallace J Nichols: #OccupyTheOcean Wallace J Nichols 2011