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4 days ago · Marine food web. The pelagic food web, showing the central involvement of marine microorganisms in how the ocean imports nutrients from and then exports them back to the atmosphere and ocean floor. A marine food web is a food web of marine life.
4 days ago · Marine microorganisms play central roles in the marine food web. The viral shunt pathway is a mechanism that prevents marine microbial particulate organic matter (POM) from migrating up trophic levels by recycling them into dissolved organic matter (DOM), which can be readily taken up by microorganisms. [244]
1 day ago · Ocean spring phytoplankton blooms are dynamic periods important to global primary production. We document vertical patterns of a diverse suite of eukaryotic algae, the prasinophytes, in the North ...
2 days ago · Bristle worms have light reactive proteins that modify their bodies for mating between the new and full moon. Credit: Martin Gühmann, CC BY-SA 4.0. For a tiny marine worm found in the Bay of Naples and elsewhere, life ends in a frenzy. The worms lose a lot of their internal organs, their eyes get bigger, and they rise to the surface.
5 days ago · The tiny (0.6 μm) marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, discovered in 1986, forms today an important part of the base of the ocean food chain and accounts for much of the photosynthesis of the open ocean and an estimated 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.
1 day ago · If you’re short on time, here’s a quick answer to your question: Starfish are omnivorous predators that feed on a variety of organisms like clams, oysters, snails, small fish, algae, coral and even other starfish. Their diverse diet connects them to many parts of the marine food web. In this comprehensive article, we’ll explore the ...
4 days ago · Protists can be autotrophs and produce their own food via photosynthesis, or they can be heterotrophs and consume organic material for nutrition. Definition: Autotroph. An autotroph is an organism that is able to synthesize its own food from inorganic materials. Definition: Heterotroph.
