Who are the players

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Who are the players

• Why do we see more fish where there are
  phytoplankton blooms?

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• What are phytoplankton?

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• What kinds are there?
• By size (small first).
• 1/millionth of a meter
• Prochlorococcus Synechoccus
• Small Green
• Dots rule!
• Where do they
• rule?

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• Where do they dominate?
• Half of PP in low nutrient ocean!

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• Where do they dominate?
• Half of PP in low nutrient ocean!

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• Larger guys. 1/10000 or so of a meter.
• Diatoms and their ilk

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• Pretty

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• Dinoflagellates (also big)

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• Big Phytos can bloom!

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• Why can the big guys bloom?

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• Copepod life cycle is long and complicated!

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• Big Phytos can bloom before they are eaten

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• How do we know about ocean phytoplankton?
• For each method that follows, remember the flaw

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• Nets

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• Satellite observations

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• Filters

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• DNA/Gene Chip

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• DNA/Gene Chip

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