My Visit to SCO (Linux Journal)

Posted Jun 20, 2003 19:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: My Visit to SCO (Linux Journal) by icc
Parent article: My Visit to SCO (Linux Journal)

You said:
> Actually, more then 90% of the oxigen we breath
> is produced by seaweeds (kelps).

Sorry, but that's nonsense. Figures are necessarily rather rough, but best guess at present is that ~60--80% of oxygen production is in the oceans, of which most is algal, and an unknown but vast proportion is due to that wonderful microorganism, smallest of photosynthesisers, Prochlorococcus marinus.

The contribution of kelp, while not nil, is not very large either. Certainly it's not 90% of the planetary total.