誰說只有看極光才叫浪漫？

05-18

誰說只有看極光才叫浪漫？

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中文字：858，建議閱讀時間：1.2分鐘，英文字：486

When you

think of how large the world is, you』ll notice how much of it is covered in

water. While there are millions of different life forms in the water the most

powerful is the plankton. since plankton is at the bottom on of the food chain

it is very important, if the plankton would die out it would create a domino

effect which would wipe out all life in the water.

The

plankton appear in huge areas of the ocean and are very common in warmer

waters, lagoons and narrow openings to the seas, where the plankton will drift

into, this causes the plankton to be trapped in specific parts of the world.

Meaning if you go to these parts of the world at the right time you will see

the luminous plankton.

One of the

more beautiful sights you can see on the coast of 15 places which are

· Australia

– Cairns, Gippsland Lakes

· United

States - Manasquan Beach, Mission Bay, Torrey Pines Beach, Cortez

· Caribbean

– Luminous Lagoon (Jamaica), Mosquito Bat (Puerto Rico)

· Asia

– Bali (Indonesia), Halong Bay (Vietnam), Ton Sai (Thailand), Toyama Bay

(Japan)

· Europe

– Zeebrugge (Belgium), Norfolk (UK), Reethi Beach (Maldives)

The sight

that you will is that the water will turn into electric blue, of course you

will only see this at night but it is worth taking a trip at night to see this

beauty. Most of the places that have the luminous [plankton have turned into

holiday resorts, so this means you can take trips to see these and able enjoy

the rest of the country. My tip would be to look at the 15 spots listed and

find the country that will interest you the most and enjoy the days and relax

on the beach at night enjoying the water turn into electric blue colour.

what causes

the plankton to turn luminous?

Plankton

have a chemical in them called luciferins and when a catalysis called

luciferase interact with the plankton it sets of an oxidation reaction, this

light that the plankton let off is called cold light, meaning that the light

that they give off does not produce any heat at all, this give off the

bio-luminous glow and can be seen in serval forms of plankton in the world. Scientist

have discovered that the plankton glow because of the stress, which is a shame

because of the relaxing effect it gives to people watching the plankton.

Many

creatures in the deep ocean have this luminous effect but use it for a defence,

since the deep ocean is so dark a flash of blue light will blind and knock out

any predator that is close. Predators also use this

luminous effect to attack fish that might think what is in front of them is a

bit of plankton or a small fish but really is a lure in front of some very

sharp teeth.

中文翻譯：

當你思考這個世界有多大時，你可能會意識到這個世界有多少面積是被水所覆蓋的。水中孕育了成百上千萬的生命體，這其中最簡單卻又最重要的當屬浮游生物。正是因為它們處於食物鏈的底端，才使它們顯得格外的被需要，如果浮游生物滅絕了，那麼食物鏈上層的生物就會產生多米諾效應，不需要多久，大家就都跟著玩完了。

浮游生物廣泛分布在海洋中，普遍分布於溫帶水域、鹹水湖、以及狹長的海口區域，這些區域能大範圍得聚集浮游生物，並能將其圍困其中，如果你有幸在合適的時間去到這些地方的話，你就能看到大片發光的浮游生物。

你可以到以下15個海岸地區，欣賞到這驚為天人的一幕：

· 澳大利亞——凱恩斯，吉普斯蘭湖

· 美國——馬納斯寬海灘，米申灣，多利松海灘，科爾斯特

· 加勒比海——牙買加、波多黎各

· 亞洲——巴厘島（印度尼西亞），下龍灣（越南），通賽灣（泰國），富山灣（日本）、瑞提海灘（馬爾地夫）

· 歐洲——澤布呂赫（比利時），諾福克（英國）、

呈現在你眼前的將是一片藍色的電光，當然只能在晚上才能看見，所以為了不辜負這如此不可思議的景色等到晚上也是值得的。許多能夠目睹浮游發光生物的海灘都已成為旅遊勝地了，所以不妨為這電光般的景色計劃一場旅遊吧。我的建議是從以上15個地區中選一個，你最想拜訪的國家，白天的話，不妨領略下當地民俗特色，晚上就可以前往目的地一睹大自然的曼妙啦。

究竟是什麼引起浮游生物發光的呢？

在這些浮游生物體內有一種化學物質叫做熒光素，在這種叫做熒光素酶的催化作用下，浮游生物會發生一種氧化反應。浮游生物所釋放出來的光稱作為冷光，發出此光時並不會產生任何熱量，這種光能夠在多種浮游生物體內被發現。科學家稱浮游生物之所以發光是因為產生了壓力，如此視覺盛宴，竟是他人痛苦的體現，心疼發光體三秒鐘。

許多深海中的生物具備發光效應多半是用作一種防衛的武器。在如此幽黑的海洋深處，發出一道亮閃的藍光，立刻閃瞎敵人的眼，再讓對方感受一股電擊的滋味，誰還敢靠近？其他一些捕食者也會利用發光浮游生物作為誘餌，當魚類認為眼前的只是普通浮游生物，逐漸靠近後，躲在發光體後的捕食者就會張開血盆大口。