Who are the Zooplankton? Q. Why are grazers rarer than grazed? Q. For each of the following: what limits their abundance? What do they eat, what eats them? Not all the names… Just the functional groups!
Nano & micro-zooplankton -- eat the bacteria and other small phytoplankton to meters ->Starve nanoPhyto -> nanoZoo ->Grazers ->Viruses Prevent blooms. Decomposers
Larger zooplankton that graze on phytoplankton Slower to reproduce than prey - allow blooms. ->Starve Micro-Phyto -> bigZoo ->other zoo ->Viruses ->fish ->whales
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Zooplankton grazers Everything is eaten by something ->Starve Micro-Phyto -> bigZoo ->other zoo ->Viruses ->fish ->whales
Is this the end of the chain? No!