Plankton Net. Fnft Fnft: The evolutionary relationships of the major groups of marine organisms.

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Plankton Net

Fnft

Fnft: The evolutionary relationships of the major groups of marine organisms

Size Distribution

Fnft: Relative sizes of phytoplankton groups

Fnft: Food pyramid that leads to an adult herring

PHYTOPLANKTON “plant plankton” Photosynthetic The very base of the food chain…

Fnft: A micrograph of pelagic diatoms

Diatom (chain) diatom

Fnft: The size difference between a typical centric diatom and a coccolithophore cell © Steve Gschmeissner/Photo Researchers, Inc.

Fnft: SEM of Thalassiosira © Dee Breger/Photo Researchers, Inc.

Fnft: SEM of entire Asteromphalus heptacles Courtesy of Dr. José Luis Iriarte M., Universidad Austral de Chile

Fnft: Mixed sample of spinous and chain-forming diatoms, Diatoma vulgare © blickwinkel/Alamy Images

Figure 3.11: Cells in a chain of Stephanopyxis Courtesy of Kohki Itoh

Fnft: centric diatom from saltwater © Phototake/Alamy Images

Fnft: A dinoflagellate © Phototake/Alamy Images

Dinoflagellates

Ceratium A Dinoflaggelate “Phytoplankton”

Fnft: SEM of Gonyaulax polygramma

Fnft: SEM of Dinophysis rapa

Figure 3.16c: SEM of Gonyaulax © CSIRO Marine Research

Fnft: SEM of Ceratochoris horrida © CSIRO Marine Research

Why do phytoplankton matter to global change?

ZOOPLANKTON “animal plankton” NOT Photosynthetic – but “herbivores” and “carnivores” instead They FEED ON the very base of the food chain (phytoplankton)…but how?

2 types of ZOOPLANKTON HOLOPLANKTON Spend entire lives as plankton Copepod, for example MEROPLANKTON Only part of their lives as plankton crabs & many fish, for example

Copepod, holoplankton

…a “survey” of zooplankton

salp

Larvacean: (Sea Squirt) Filter Feeder

Feeding on Dispersed Prey The appendicularian Oikopleura, within its mucous bubble. Arrows indicate path of water flow.

(mollusk)

Inhabitants of the Pelagic Division Some large gelatinous zooplankton: (a) A pelagic mollusk, Corolla. © David Wrobel/Visuals Unlimited

(sea star)

Polychaete worms & some mollusks

(crustacean)

Meroplankton

Inhabitants of the Pelagic Division Some large gelatinous zooplankton: (b) A ctenophore, Bolinopsis, swimming with eight rows of ciliated combs. Courtesy of OAR/National Undersea Research Program/NOAA

They aren’t always “small!” Some large gelatinous zooplankton: (c) A colony of salps (Pegea) cloned from a single parent. © Eric Prine/age fotostock

The “ultimate” symbiosis: sea slug w/ jellyfish

Not all plankton are small

Water spider

The cycle from a larva stage to the upcoming of adult hood.

Vertical Migration: Tying the Upper Zones Together A midwater siphonophore with a small, gas- filled pneumatophore at the upper end. Courtesy of Dr. Alice Alldredge, University of California, Santa Barbara

Bad plankton

Fnft: Phytoplankton bloom along the California coast

Food Chain impacts

Table 15.01