The beginning of everything: Primary Production
Primary production is the conversion of energy from __________ forms into energy stored in ___________ forms.
What is inorganic and organic?
List the four factors to categorize phytoplankton.
What are size, biomineralization, other functions such as fixation of N, and taxonomy?
What are size, food source/food web role, feeding strategy, habitat, portion of life cycle spent as plankton, taxonomy, plankton functional type?
Describe the difference between photolithoautotrophs and chemoorganoheterotrophs.
This was developed for enzyme kinetics and can describe enzymes reacting with its substrates and releasing its products.
Michaelis-Menten equation
This model has two parameters used to relate light availability to photosynthesis.
Describe the one phytoplankton that isn't an eukaryote.
What is marine picocyanobacteria? It has synechococcus and prochlorococcus and differ in pigmentation. It also has trichodesmium, which does nitrification and considered the first cell to every exist around 3700 Mya that invented oxygenic photosynthesis.
The biogeochemical roles of zooplankton
What are trophic links between primary producers and higher trophic levels, recyclers of nutrients and carbon in pelagic ecosystems, regulators of carbon export by activities such as fecal pellet production, vertical migration, and fragmentation of large particles?
I am an oligotroph and can capture light energy using something similar to human eyes.
What is SAR11 (Pelagibacter ubique)?
True or False: Vm and Ks are constant.
False, they are not constant as they can vary based on growth conditions and can evolved in each species depending on habitats.
List the five factors that affects light availability.
What are latitude and season, atmospheric conditions, sea state, attenuation by water and materials in the water, surface layer mixing depth?
I am the nexus of the biological and alkalinity pumps. I also specialized by depth and can be mixotrophic.
What is haptophytes or prymnesiophytes?
Name a protozoan zooplankton
List the sources of DOC.
What are health phytoplankton, from dead or dying cells, feeding, unassimilated food?
What are specific affinity and lowest?
Describe VGPM.
What is vertically generalized production model? And it relates the relationship between the surface chlorophyll and primary production based on the phytoplankton biomass, latitude and season, atmospheric conditions, and mixed layer depth.
List the main types of small eukaryotic phytoplankton (nano).
What are prasinophytes and cryptophytes?
True or false: More primary production goes through microzooplankton than directly to mesozooplankton.
True
True or False: There is no biological importance to the size of organic materials.
False, only small can be taken into bacterial cells as the larger ones must be metabolized externally to release small molecules.
There are two main ideas of why we use Monod and Droop equations.
To infer ecophysiological and eco-evolutionary pressures and responses and to model ocean biogeochemistry where different 'phytoplankton functional types' have different affinities for different potentially limiting nutrients
Euphotic zone is often defined with a certain percentage of surface irradiance.
1%
The NASA NOBM consists of three main models.
What are radiative, circulation, and biogeochemical processes model?
The absorption efficiency of the zooplankton are often modeled as this percentage and the rest goes to fecal pellets.
Deep-sea chemolithoautotrophic primary production make up what per year.
Around 50 PgC but there is still much to learn about it
Monod kinetics are what description.