In the end, we may wind - up feeding corn sugars to
heterotrophic algae or duckweed, and multiply the yield of carbohydrates, oils and proteins several more times.
At least four key findings from these projects relating to arctic
heterotrophic food web, pelagic - benthic coupling and biodiversity have emerged: (1) Contrary to a long - standing paradigm of dormant ecosystems during the long arctic winter, major food web components showed relatively high level of winter activity, well before the spring release of ice
algae and subsequent phytoplankton bloom.