A single Pacific krill doesn’t grow as big as its cocktail-shrimp cousins. Yet a swarm of krill making its daily commute in a Canadian inlet boosted water turbulence by factors ranging from 2,000 to 20,000.
That’s the result of the first measurement of a creature’s contribution to the mixing of ocean waters, explains Eric Kunze of the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
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