Well, it now turns out that the whales are crucial to sustaining that entire ecosystem, and one of the reasons for this is that they often feed at depth and then they come up to the surface and produce what biologists politely call large fecal plumes, huge explosions of poop right across the surface waters, up in the photic zone, where there's enough light to allow photosynthesis to take place, and those great plumes of fertilizer
鯨が生態系全体を 保持するのに重要なのです その理由の一つは 鯨は深海で餌を食べ 海水面に出てきて ―生物学者は糞の上昇流と呼びますが 大量の糞を海水表面にまき散らします 光合成に十分な光量のある深度にもたらされるので この肥料の上昇流は