Phytoplankton serve as the base of ocean food webs.

浮游植是海洋食网的基础。

Those phytoplankton do something really incredible.

浮游植的作用非常神奇。

In the oceans, cyanobacteria would dominate over other phytoplankton species.

在海洋中，蓝藻将会主导其他浮游植。

The phytoplankton trails the edge of the ice and can stretch for nearly fifty kilometers.

浮游植沿着冰层的边缘生长，达近五十公里。

Okay, so there's a different class of plankton called phytoplankton.

好吧，所以有一种不同的浮游生叫做浮游植。

There's these microscopic organisms called phytoplankton.

海洋中有一微生，称为“浮游植”。

Phytoplankton is one of the biggest resources for food for every single species in the ocean.

海洋生主要以浮游植为食。

There are some phytoplankton, some photosynthetic plankton that also undergo vertical movements.

有一浮游植，一光合作用的浮游生也进行垂直运动。

These nutrients help to form phytoplankton -- extremely small organisms that take in carbon.

养质有助于形成浮游植——能吸收碳的极小生。

And we're making sure that this doesn't have any bad effect on the phytoplankton diatoms in the ocean.

我们还要确保不会对海洋中的浮游植硅藻造成任何不良影响。

Much of the rest is unattached algae, known as phytoplankton, and tiny animals, known as zooplankton.

而其它大多数是独立生长的海藻，被称为浮游植，还有被称为浮游动的小动。

In summer, the powerful nonstop rays of the sun create a bloom of phytoplankton and microscopic plant life.

夏季时强力而持续的太阳光照使浮游植生长旺盛，而微生植也很兴旺。

But these giant creatures just didn’t have enough food to get any giant-er than that.

数百万年前 洋流的变化将海底无数的养分冲至海面区 富含养的浮游植堆 当然吸引了巨量的浮游生聚集。

During the day, phytoplankton use sunlight to turn dissolved carbon dioxide into energy and build their own cells.

浮游植在白天期间利用阳光将溶解的二氧化碳转变为能量，并用来建造自己体内的细胞。

I call them the charismatic species of phytoplankton.

我称它们为具有超凡魅力的浮游植。

D. The efforts to fuel the growth of phytoplankton.

D. 促进浮游植生长的努力。

Algae need light, so must live near the surface—as must the zooplankton and other animals that need the phytoplankton.

海藻需要光线，所以必须生活在接近海面的区域—还有需要浮游植的浮游动和其它动也同样如此。

Ocean ecosystems are finely balanced and any change in the phytoplankton will send ripples across the food chain.

她告诉美国有线电视新闻网，海洋生态系统处于微妙的平衡状态，浮游植的任何变化都会在整个食链中产生连锁反应。

The phytoplankton form the basis of a food web which supports larger organisms such as krill, fish, seabirds and marine mammals.

浮游植是含有叶绿素的类似植的微生。浮游植构成了食网的基础，食网支持较大的生，比如磷虾、鱼类、海鸟和海洋哺乳动。

D. To introduce a new method to study phytoplankton.

D. 介绍一种研究浮游植的新方法。