Food Chain In The Deep Ocean

The bottom of the ocean food chain.

Food chain in the deep ocean. In the deep ocean there is no sunlight and therefore no photosynthesis yet life flourishes in certain places. Satellite images showing chlorophyll in the ocean inform computer simulations like this one from Los Alamos of the global abundance of phytoplankton. Besides this leveled food chain there is other alternative food chain inside ocean ecosystem and it exists at the deep sea level in which sunlight cannot pass through.

Sea-floor cold seeps are just such places. Photo by Rich CareyShutterstock The NPR article that broke the story said that a recent survey of larvaceans which are tadpole-sized creatures that feed on plankton and other tiny organisms revealed that every single larvacean captured by scientists. A food chain in the ocean begins with tiny one-celled organisms called diatoms which make their own food from sunlight.

Small fish eat the shrimplike creatures and bigger fish eat the small fish. The large predators that sit atop the marine food chain are a diverse group that includes finned sharks tuna dolphins feathered pelicans penguins and flippered seals walruses animals. In the oceans also known as the marine environment food chains also work in much the same way.

Decomposers are bacteria that chemically break down organic matter. Global ocean simulations predict the future abundance of phytoplanktonand the sustainability of life on Earth. These tiny organisms are microscopic.

A food chain is a set of linkages that show who eats who in an ecosystem and the transfer of energy that takes place. They are independent of sun energy and their ecosystems derive from the chemical energy that enters the ocean. Photosynthesis the process plants use to turn sunlight into usable energy through chlorophyll is almost always the method that plants use to get said energy.

Food chains on land start with plants and move up level by level showing which creatures eat which. Snipe eels play an important role in transferring energy from the highly productive surface waters to the deep ocean. The Ocean Food Chain Turtles Guide to the Pacific BBC Earth - YouTube.