海洋浮游生物群落是构成海洋食物链的重要基础。海洋动物大多以援食这些微生物或浮游生物为生。海洋浮游生物生长茂盛的地区吸引着大量鱼类，海鸟乃至鲸群，一旦它们数量减少，食物链就会处于紊乱状态。因此，海洋学家对遍布世界大洋中的浮游生物群落特别关注。去年8月，由美国 Marine plankton communities constitute an important basis for the marine food chain. Most of the marine animals to aid the feeding of these microorganisms or plankton for a living. Large areas of marine plankton, which attract large numbers of fish, seabirds and even whales, will disrupt the food chain once they are reduced in number. As a result, oceanographers are particularly concerned with plankton communities throughout the world’s oceans. Last August, by the United States