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What can you say about biomass vs production in different seasons?

Author: Asger LIndberg-Nielsen



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In summer biomass is low but production is high. This is because of grazers. The production is very high but grazers keep the biomass down. F ratio: amount of production based on new production. It will be very low here because there is a lot of grazers and the nutrients are being reused. grazers eat photoplankton -> excrete -> recycled by bactiria and lastly taken up once again by phytoplankton When production is way higher than biomass the F ratio is low because it means it is a lot of recycled material. this is what we see in summer where nutrients are pretty depleated.


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In summer biomass is low but production is high. This is because of grazers. The production is very high but grazers keep the biomass down.  

F ratio: amount of production based on new production. It will be very low here because there is a lot of grazers and the nutrients are being reused.  grazers eat photoplankton -> excrete -> recycled by bactiria and lastly taken up once again by phytoplankton
When production is way higher than biomass the F ratio is low because it means it is a lot of recycled material. this is what we see in summer where nutrients are pretty depleated.
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