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Future ocean warming may cause large reductions in Prochlorococcus biomass and productivity. Prochlorococcus is Earth’s most abundant photosynthetic organism and crucial to oceanic ecosystems.


Decade-long field measurements and modelling show that projected ocean temperatures could restrict cell division rates of an important marine cyanobacterium.

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