Bacteria, Protists, and Plants Primary Producers Bacteria, Protists, and Plants Organisms that synthesis energy rich organic compounds from inorganic substances.

Capture and Flow of energy Producers Photosynthesis Chemosynthesis Consumers Animals eating the producers

Cellular Respiration Liberates energy

Feeding Relationship Primary producers Heterotrophs Tropic Pyramid Primary consumer Secondary consumer Top consumer Food web

Primary Productivity Biomass Marine producers Phytoplankton Sea weeds Chemosynthetic organisms

Measuring Primary productivity Radioactive carbon method Chlorophyll content

Factors Limit Productivity Lack of nutrients light

Plankton

Collecting and Studying Plankton Meteor Plankton nets Filteration Centrifugation

Phytoplankton

Diatoms Shape Frustule Valves Xanthophylls Fatty acids and oils Auxospores

Dinoflagellates Bioluminescence Autotrophs Zooxanthellae Flagella Redtide

Coccolithophores Single celled autotrophs

Silicoflagellates

Nanoplankton and Pictoplankton

Photic zone Euphotic zone Disphotic zone Aphotic zone

Compensation depth

Plankton productivity Tropics Polar Temperate and subpolar zones

zooplankton Macroplankton Holoplankton Meroplankton Forminifera krill

Plankton and food web

Large Marine Producers Algae Unicellular Multicellular Nonvascular Angiosperms Flowering plants Vascular

Accessory Pigments

Structure of seaweed Blade Stipes Holdfast Gas bladders

Classification of seaweeds Chlorophytes Phaeophytes Rhodophytes

Marine Angiosperms Sea grass Mangroves