The Wadden Sea is an extremely productive ecosystem whose food web is supported by benthic organisms, feeding on primary producers. In a recent publication in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, NIOZ marine biogeochemist dr. Philip Riekenberg and colleagues show where (part of) this exceptional productivity may come from.
Click here for original story, Microphytobenthos in the Dutch Wadden Sea feed on ‘left-overs’ from the bottom
Source: Phys.org