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If the article seems mid-tier web article, it's because it's a summary of https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4099018.

But even the "full" article seems weird.

I'm not a native english speaker, but these sound wrong:

> "This report will be followed by a detailed reported include the observed data from 13 sailing vessels and over 500 data points across the Atlantic Ocean."

> "We are biologists and perhaps we think differently to other professions."

You mean than ?

> "marine plankton form the root[...]"

forms ?

> The legend of figure ?? (yea not numbered) says "Particles in 100ml of seawater from the middle of the Atlantic".

It's not ideal to reproduce the experiment, because not everyone knows where the middle is !

Their findings sounds alarming, especially this :

>"peer reviewed literature shows we have lost more than 50% of all life in the oceans, but from own plankton sampling activity and other observations, we consider that losses closer to 90%[...]"

I think people on the field usualy have better insight than academics but i cannot trust such a poorly written article.



> You mean than ?

"Different to", or "different from", never "different than".

> forms ?

"Plankton" is a collective noun and takes the plural, except when a single individual is being referred to. Like sheep.

The article is written with good grammar.

BTW, it's "usually", not "usualy".




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