Sentences with phrase «of bacterioplankton»

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We now aim to reconstruct the genomes of a number of dominant bacterioplankton species in the Baltic to learn about their ecosystem functions», says Anders Andersson.

Excess labile carbon promotes the expression of virulence factors in coral reef bacterioplankton — Anny Cárdenas, ISME

Phytoplankton, which live close enough to the water's surface to perform photosynthesis — critical to maintaining oxygen in Earth's atmosphere — form the base of the marine food web.4 Although phytoplankton are microscopic, they can be seen from satellites when they grow in a concentrated area (bloom) on the ocean's surface.5 Zooplankton, which feed on phytoplankton, and bacterioplankton, which recycle nutrients in the water, make up the next levels of the web.4

At low trophic levels, bacterioplankton and heterotrophic alveolates remained productive despite the lack of primary production (e.g. Forest et al. 2011; Sala et al. 2008; Terrado et al. 2009).

The zooplankton is generally better known than bacterioplankton and phytoplankton, although limited information is available on the species composition and ecology of smaller zooplankters.

They concluded that Arctic Ocean bacterioplankton assemblages, which are as complex as assemblages from California coastal waters, represent novel groups of organisms, at least compared with those from tropical and temperate waters.