15. oktober 2006, Science Daily: Marine Life Stirs Ocean Enough To Affect Climate, Study Says. Sitat: «...And the sum of all that phytoplankton-fueled stirring may equal climate control... In fact, he explained, biosphere mixing appears to provide about one third the power required to bring the deep, cold waters of the world ocean to the surface, which in turn completes the ocean's conveyor belt circulation critical to the global climate system... Dewar and his colleagues also suggest that human and environmental decimation of whale and big fish populations may have had a measurable impact on the total biomixing occurring in the world's oceans...»
