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- noun Plural form of
phototroph .
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In the oceans, ubiquitous microscopic phototrophs phytoplankton account for approximately half the production of organic matter on Earth....
Bill McKibben, Climate Change: As Phytoplankton Dwindle, The Earth Suffers ( The New York Review of Books ) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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In the oceans, ubiquitous microscopic phototrophs (phytoplankton) account for approximately half the production of organic matter on Earth ....
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In the oceans, ubiquitous microscopic phototrophs (phytoplankton) account for approximately half the production of organic matter on Earth ...
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In the oceans, ubiquitous microscopic phototrophs (phytoplankton) account for approximately half the production of organic matter on Earth ....
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The samples included phototrophs, which convert sunlight into usable energy, and mixotrophs, which can use sunlight or consume dead organic matter.
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In the oceans, ubiquitous microscopic phototrophs (phytoplankton) account for approximately half the production of organic matter on Earth ...
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While phosphorus content had been studied in the past with respect to the problem of eutrophication in lakes and other inland waters, its significance for controlled growth of phototrophs like cyanobacteria within a PBR had not been examined in detail.
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Heterotrophs are likely to be present to consume the phototrophs and in turn to be consumed by predators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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Cyanobacteria are prokaryotes that are phototrophs.
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Heterotrophs are likely to be present to consume the phototrophs and in turn to be consumed by predators.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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