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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?

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1 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!

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3 Nano & micro-zooplankton -- eat the bacteria and other small phytoplankton. 10 -4 to 10 -6 meters ->Starve nanoPhyto -> nanoZoo ->Grazers ->Viruses Prevent blooms. Decomposers

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9 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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12 Movies

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15 Zooplankton grazers Everything is eaten by something ->Starve Micro-Phyto -> bigZoo ->other zoo ->Viruses ->fish ->whales

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18 Is this the end of the chain? No!

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