Microbial food web/loop
Involves microbes that eat dissolved organic stuff (poop) to that are then eaten by plankton
Top Down Control
Things are controlled by predation like dear
Bottom up control
Controlled by what is bellow them (plants/prey)
ODD Number of links
Odd number of links - plants (pp) should be abundant and
limited by resources (BOTTOM UP)
EVEN number of links
Even number of links - plants should be grazer limited (Top down)
Biomanipulation
Changing the number of links from odds to even or even to odd
Problems with biomanipulation
How do you know what you put in to eat something.
hard to deal with Planktivory