Talk:Phytoplankton
From Academic Kids
I've rewritten this to fit better with the plankton page, and corrected some inaccuracies:
- fungi are decomposers not photosynthesisers, so are not phytoplankton.
- plankton do not 'hover', which implies an active process, but drift passively in the water column.
- primary production is a term for the cumulative amount of carbon fixed per area over a period of time by phytoplankton.
- some oceanic ecosystems are supplied by chemical energy from hydrothermal vents.
I've commented out some stuff about zooplankton and food chains - this should go in a zooplankton page. Agree?
There's a lot more I can add, which I will do in time...
Tonderai 20:52, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)
