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Hello everyone, in this question we will be discussing about the microbial loop.
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The microbial loop is found in both the aquatic as well as the terrestrial ecosystem.
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The microbial root loop is important for regulating the dissolved organic matter in both the system that is the aquatic as well as terrestrial system.
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So in the aquatic system the dissolved organic matter is introduced into the system and it is introduced by excretion of the waste products by the humans as well as the aquatic organism and the algae that is present they also produce certain organic molecules and their waste product contributes to this dom.
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Various bacteria take up these algal dissolved organic material as a source of energy.
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So this dom is energy for certain bacterias and these bacterias are then consumed by the protozoans, the microbe consumers of bacteria as well as the algae.
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Then at the higher tropic level there are zooplankton which feed on these protozoans and link the traditional food web.
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Then the bigger animals further feed on these zooplankton and these are then eaten by bigger fishes like shark or whale.
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So the microbial loop is basically the interaction in which this dissolved organic matter is utilized as the source of energy by certain bacteria which further is food for other organisms and in this way the food cycle keeps going on.
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So in this the microbes basically plays an important role because they feed on this dom to produce the energy.
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So in this way the energy is passed on to many tropic level and that is why the microbial loop is very much necessary.
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So here we can see that there is light received by the phytoplankton which are basically the photosynthetic organisms in the aquatic system...