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| Most important form of primary production |
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| Lesser form of primary production |
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| rate of organic matter formation, mostly dissolved organic carbon. |
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| Standing stock of organic matter |
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| photosynthesizers, chemosynthesizers |
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| Reaction of life running right |
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| Reaction of life running left |
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| Is photosynthesis the same as growth? |
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| What are the major macronutrients? |
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| Nitrogen/nitrate, Phosphorus/phosphate, Silicon/silicate. |
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| Give an example of a micronutrient |
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| Iron, or other trace metals that organisms need. |
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| Where are nutrients generally more concentrated and why? |
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| At great depth, they are depleted at the surface having been taken up by phytoplankton. |
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| What are the limiting factors in reference to primary production? |
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| Conversion of inert N2 into NH4+ or another useable form. |
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| Rapid growth of phytoplankton, visible in satellite images, occurs when daylight and thermocline become just right, cells are suspended near the surface. |
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| Depth to which cells can be vertically mixed in the water column but still get enough light for photosynthesis to exceed respiration. |
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| How much biomass is lost at each trophic step and how? |
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| 80-90% is lost as heat and metabolic wastes. |
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| Chlorophyll molecule absorbs blue light and re-emits red light (lower energy). Precise way to measure low concentrations of chlorophyll. |
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| pressure on organisms when salinity differs within and outside their bodies. |
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| What does the binomial system refer to? |
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| Archaea and bacteria, prokaryotes. |
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| Phytoplankton, blue green bacteria. |
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| smallest and most abundant phytoplankton |
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Eukaryotic phytoplankton
Mostly freshwater |
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Eukaryotic phytoplankton
Rare
important in sediments |
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Eukaryotic phytoplankton
Important to CO2 system and sediments |
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EP
Larger cells, very important in food webs.
Glass shell, tend to sink, formations to prevent sinking.
Asexual or sexual reproduction. |
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EP
2 flagella, swim vertically
Harmful algal blooms and red tides
Mixotrophy - photosynthesis and phagotrophy |
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| Picophytoplankton/ultraphytoplankton |
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| .3-2 micrometers, some are bacteria. Most abundant, most primary production. |
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| Greens, reds, browns (see weeds, rockweeds, kelps) |
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Eel grass.
Wasting disease in 1930s, provide important habitat. |
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| part-time plankton. planktonic larvae, nauplius/cyprid |
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| Small ciliates, important in the microbial loop. |
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| Most abundant animal on the planet, "grazers", 6 naupliar and 5 copepoded stages.Diapause, filter feed, vertical migration |
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| Amphipods, mysids, euphausids |
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| Arrow worms, ctenophores, salps, jelly fishes, etc. |
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| Most invertebrates first appeared, 570-542 mya. First multicellular organisms, increased O2 levels. |
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| Number and abundance of species |
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| Don't move, primitive animal w/ glass skeleton |
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| Nematocysts, sit and wait predator. |
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| Calcium carbonate skeletal support, Zooanthellae (photosynthetic symbiont) |
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| Cup like thing (cluster of ciliated tentacles) used to capture planktonic food particles. |
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| Everywhere, most evolutionarily successful animal. |
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| Segmented, proboscis, swim crawl and burrow. |
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| star fish, sea cucumbers, sand dollars, sea urchins. |
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| sea spiders and horseshoe crabs |
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| isopods, amphipods, decapods (crabs etc) |
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| Cephalopods/nectonic invertebrates |
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| Jawless fishes, lampreys and hagfish |
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| Condrichthyes, elasmobranchs and chimaeras. |
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| Fast swimmers, ampullae of lorenzini detect electric fields, lateral line. Must swim |
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| flattened, big pectoral fins/wings. |
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| Modern fishes, operculum, bone skeleton, breathe by gulping. |
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| Contracted schools under attack |
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| elasmobranchs vs. bony fish |
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| Mortality/survival in early life stages |
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| sphere to let people go deep in the ocean |
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| stone in ear used to age fish |
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