Plankton is vital in the Coral Reef Food Web - Middle Coral Reef Producers (Plants)

Plankton is vital in the Coral Reef Food Web
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CORAL REEF FOOD WEB.
Plankton, the living soup of creatures that live suspended and drifting with the water, plays a vital role in the coral reef food web and biology of coral reefs. Like cities and even countries, reefs must import food to sustain their dense populations. Feeding on plankton drifting past enables reef creatures to harvest the produce of an area of the sea many times larger than the reef itself. Virtually all of the attached reef animals depend in whole or in part on plankton for sustenance as do the clouds of plankton-feeding fishes that swarm above reefs.

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