If you separate predators from their prey, you get more prey. Now that simple relationship has been used to explain one of the most important annual events in the ocean: the North Atlantic spring phytoplankton bloom.
![](https://osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs.dir/2648/files/2017/01/ocean-scene-lo.jpg)
If you separate predators from their prey, you get more prey. Now that simple relationship has been used to explain one of the most important annual events in the ocean: the North Atlantic spring phytoplankton bloom.