We also suggested that a warming climate will simultaneously enhance the productivity of large phytoplankton, such as diatoms, in coastal regions, owing to increased wind-driven upwelling 1.

Spring weather brings welcome conditions for flowers and plant life to bloom across the land ... display of winter abundance. Blooms of diatoms—microscopic, photosynthetic algae—were alive ...

Tiny diatoms in ... the global carbon cycle. Using photosynthesis, they absorb large amounts of CO 2 from the environment and convert it into nutrients that feed much of the life in the ocean.