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Larvaceans are important predators in the epipelagic, as well as providing an important food source for other organisms. What do they eat and what do they provide?

a. they eat the pico and nano plankton b. they produce and shed mucous coverings many times as they grow.

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Why can cyanobacteria survive in nutrient poor water?

They are nitrogen fixers, gaining nitrogen from N2 gas dissolved in the water.

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What is the difference between overturn and upwelling?

Upwelling occurs where there is a steady blowing wind. (coastal areas and equatorial upwelling)and is the process that carries colder nutrient rich water upward

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What is the Microbial loop?

The flow of energy and nutrients in the epipelagic, beginning with the phytoplankton and DOM and the smallest zooplankton and making energy available to the maj

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What is so beneficial about cyanobacteria?

They are picoplankton that are nitrogen fixers.

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The microbial loop is sometimes referred to as a food web within a food web. Why?

The microbial loop is a small food web that utilizes DOM that leaks out of other organisms.

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What is a Pteropod? What does Pteropod mean?

a member of the Mollusca phylum, it means winged foot

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What is DOM

Dissolved organic matter, Organic material dissolved in ocean water (sugars, lipids,, cellulose)which picoplankton feed on

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What happens in tropical regions where it doesn’t cool, has a distinct thermocline and doesn't have a steady wind blowing?

limited mixing

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What is Meroplankton?

species of zoo plankton that spend only part of their lives as part of the planktonic community.

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What is the most abundant group of zooplankton in the epipelagic?

copepods - a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.

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What is the difference between the prefixes 'mero" and "holo"?

"mero" means part and "Holo" mean whole

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