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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? Not all the names… Just the functional groups!
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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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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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Movies
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Jellies
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Zooplankton grazers Everything is eaten by something ->Starve Micro-Phyto -> bigZoo ->other zoo ->Viruses ->fish ->whales
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Is this the end of the chain? No!
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