Chemical or biological digestion extraction of sediment by representative reagents.
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Plankton
Organisms that live in the water column that are too small or weak swimming to counter ocean currents, they are passive drifters.
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Phytoplankton
Photosynthetic planktonic protistts and unicellular 'plantish' usually consist of single celled organisms or chains of cells.
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Diatoms
Single celled eukaryotes cells encased in a silica dioxide shell made of 2 halves, no locomotion.
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Dinoflagellates
Single celled eukaryotes, cells reinforced by armoured carbohydrate cellulose plates (can be unarmoured) with 2 flagella in grooves make cell spin and move vertically.
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Zooplankton
Non-photosynthetic planktonic protists and animas ranging from single celled organisms to krill and larval fish.
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Holoplankton
Plankton that spends it's hole life in the water column.
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Meroplankton
Plankton that spends part of its life cycle in the water column usually larval stage.
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DVM
Diel Vertical Migration - the largest migration on earth in terms of biomass, happens everyday.
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Primary Productivity
Formation of energy rich compounds from inorganic materials to support the marine foodweb.
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Microbial Loop
Loop that returns dissolved organic carbon into particulate food web, lots of microbes involving detritus, blood, dead phytoplankton and faeces.
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Protist Nanozooplankton
Zooplankton that consume bacteria and nanophytoplankton which are preyed on by larger zooplankton and provides the link between pico and invertebrate zooplankton.
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Marine Bacteria
Prokaryotic single celled organisms including autotrophs and hetertrophs.
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Regime Shift
An unpredictable stepwise alteration in composition and productivity of whole ecosystem at a regional scale that reflects major hydrographic change.
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HABs
Harmful Algal Blooms - algal phytoplankton, natural part of the ecosystem.
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Generated in situ chemically, either as coatings on lithogenous particles or as discrete phases.
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