Mixoplankton

==Biological pump==

==Biological pump==

[[File:Schema of the biological carbon pump including mixoplankton.png|thumb|upright=2|center| The [[biological carbon pump]] including mixoplankton. Also shown are [[phytoplankton]] and [[protozooplankton]] as protistan representatives and [[mesozooplankton]] as direct metazoan consumers. The yellow lines indicate trophic interactions, whereas the black lines indicate other physicochemical processes.<ref name="Anschutz2024">{{cite journal | last=Anschütz | first=Anna-Adriana | last2=Maselli | first2=Maira | last3=Traboni | first3=Claudia | last4=Boon | first4=Arjen R. | last5=Stolte | first5=Willem | title=Importance of integrating mixoplankton into marine ecosystem policy and management—Examples from the Marine Strategy Framework Directive | journal=Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management | volume=20 | issue=5 | date=2024-09-01 | issn=1551-3777 | doi=10.1002/ieam.4914 | doi-access=free | pages=1366–1383 | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ieam.4914 | access-date=2025-07-05}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Modified text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].</ref>]]

[[File:Schema of the biological carbon pump including mixoplankton.png|thumb|upright=2|center| The [[biological carbon pump]] including mixoplankton. Also shown are [[phytoplankton]] and [[Wiktionary:protozooplankton|protozooplankton]] ([[protozoan]] plankton) as representatives of [[Marine protists|protists]], and [[mesozooplankton]] as direct [[metazoan]] consumers. The yellow lines indicate trophic interactions, whereas the black lines indicate other physicochemical processes.<ref name="Anschutz2024">{{cite journal | last=Anschütz | first=Anna-Adriana | last2=Maselli | first2=Maira | last3=Traboni | first3=Claudia | last4=Boon | first4=Arjen R. | last5=Stolte | first5=Willem | title=Importance of integrating mixoplankton into marine ecosystem policy and management—Examples from the Marine Strategy Framework Directive | journal=Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management | volume=20 | issue=5 | date=2024-09-01 | issn=1551-3777 | doi=10.1002/ieam.4914 | doi-access=free | pages=1366–1383 | url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/ieam.4914 | access-date=2025-07-05}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Modified text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].</ref>]]

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