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Tuesday, october 24, 2017 8:18 pm: photoautotrophs include. Phytoplankton: sea grasses - reseemble grass but are actually part of lilly family, cordgrasses, halophytes, mangroves. Trees and shrubs adapted to living in tropical and subtropical regions. Primary distinction between sea grass and halophytes are sea grasses are pemanently submerged. Salt marshes replace mangroves at higher latitudes. Serve as nurseries for marine species, stabilize coast, provide important source of primary production: seaweeds or macroalgae, large plant-like algae. Sargassum is a type, forms large mats, the sea is part of large subtropical gyre in na: plankton comes from planktos, meaning to wander. Moved by currents from place to place. Nanoplankton are between 2-20 microns in size. Microplankton or net plankton range between 20-200 microns in size. Macroplankton are 200 microns to 2mm in size: bacterioplankton. Have enormous impact on biogeochemical cycles: phytoplankton. Diatoms, dinoflagellates, coccolithophorids, cyanobacteria, and green alage suite of pigments. Different groups can be distinguished by morphology and.

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