Transcript ES501class26_whatZoo

Who are the Zooplankton?
Q. Why are grazers rarer than grazed?
Q. For each of the following: what
limits their abundance? What do they
eat, what eats them?
Not all the names… Just the
functional groups!
• Nano & micro-zooplankton -- eat the
bacteria and other small phytoplankton.
• 10-4 to 10-6 meters
->Starve
• nanoPhyto -> nanoZoo ->Grazers
->Viruses
• Prevent blooms.
• Decomposers
• Larger zooplankton that graze on
phytoplankton
• Slower to reproduce than prey - allow
blooms.
->Starve
• Micro-Phyto -> bigZoo ->other zoo
->Viruses
->fish
->whales
• Movies
• Jellies
• Zooplankton grazers
• Everything is eaten by something
->Starve
• Micro-Phyto -> bigZoo ->other zoo
->Viruses
->fish
->whales
• Is this the end of the chain? No!