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Phytoplankton has played a central role in mitigating and amplifying climate change in the past and may have contributed to stabilizing the climate by influencing the partitioning of climate-relevant gases between the ocean and atmosphere (Schlesinger, 2005). In modern day, phytoplankton can be used as excellent proxies for detecting changes in the water column as a result of anthropogenic activities (Moncheva et al., 2001).
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Bhattacharjee, D., Samanta, B., Danda, A., Bhadury, P. (2013). Impact of Climate Change in the Sundarban Aquatic Ecosystems: Phytoplankton as Proxies. In: Sundaresan, J., Sreekesh, S., Ramanathan, A., Sonnenschein, L., Boojh, R. (eds) Climate Change and Island and Coastal Vulnerability. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6016-5_8
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