A research team that includes Dr. Angus Atkinson of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Dr. Axel Rossberg from Queen Mary University of London has discovered a hidden amplifying mechanism within the ocean's food web. Their findings, published in Nature Communications, reveal that when climate warming reduces phytoplankton levels by just 16%–26% (as projected by global models in regions like the North Atlantic), the carrying capacity for fish plummets by 38%–55%.