... water too deep for photosynthesis to be appreciable or even to take place at all, but it derives its energy base from dead phytoplankton, bacteria, animals and feces that sink from the autotrophic ... area) and littoral production, limited to the shallow margins, may also be low The organic inputs to the community may then be due almost entirely to photosynthesis by the phytoplankton THE FLUX ... experimentally to ocean areas, massive blooms of phytoplankton can result (Coale et al., 1996); such blooms are also likely to occur when large storms supply land-derived iron to the oceans While...