Talk:Bacterioplankton

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Questions

what do bacterioplankton eat? --70.231.128.38 (talk) 22:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

another question are they first level consumers (do they eat producers)? --70.231.128.38 (talk) 22:40, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Does anyone have any idea what proportion of all plankton might be bacteria? Some kind of likely range, like greater than 5% or less than 25%? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.40.50.242 (talk) 19:12, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Peer review

Hey guys nicely done! I have a few notes from reading your article.

• Could you please add citations in the introduction?
• Please clarify the mechanism of nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium, first mentioned in 'Major groups'. The review you cite does not agree with how you have explained it, and your sentence sounds like you are saying that Trichodesmium uses photosynthesis to fix nitrogen!
• Could you please be more specific in the opening paragraph of the 'Trophic interactions' section? The paragraph mentions that many things influence each other but no direction of correlation is given until the last sentence where you mention that phosphorus is a limiting nutrient.
• I think you should include a sentence or two in the "Ecological significance" section to tie it back to "Biogeochemical cycling", because the two are intimately connected.
• There are a few grammar/style type things that I think you should look in to:
  • In intro, bacterium are referred to as a neologism. I dont think this is what you mean to say.
  • In biogeochemical cycling, carbon: "biological carbon pump is a vertical transmission pump arbitrated mainly by..." I'm not sure if 'arbitrated' is the right word to use here. Maybe use 'driven' instead?
  • There are a number of awkward wordings/typos throughout the article. I won't list all but for example, in major groups:
    • "Synechococcus is cosmopolitan, having been reported across temperature and tropical waters." Temperature should be changed to temperate.
    • "these organisms are saprophytic, absorbing up nutrients..." should just say 'absorbing nutrients'. Might be a good idea to read through a few times to iron out these types of things!

That's it! You guys did a good job :) Mitchso (talk) 06:46, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Note: There's no need to add references to material in the lead that is already referenced in the main body. Ideally that should be all of it, since the lead is supposed to be a summary of the article but not to add anything novel. Cheers --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 06:53, 16 March 2018 (UTC)

Yixin's Peer Review

Intro

The intro paragraph is rich and well organized, well done. I think the citation should be consistent, so maybe better to remove the "(Thurman, 1997)" part of the reference and use a superscript. SamiT (talk) 21:02, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Major groups

I think you can add more links to the keywords, like "nitrogen fixation", in case some readers lack the background knowledge.

The "Photosynthetic Bacterioplankton" part can be more concise because most contents are related to cyanobacteria and which can be found on the wiki page of "Cyanobacteria". SamiT (talk) 21:02, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Biogeochemical cycling

I like the structure and how you guys split into three parts. The contents are good and clear. Only need some proofreading, like the "3" in "NO3" of the "Nitrogen" part should be subscript. SamiT (talk) 21:31, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Trophic interactions

I agree with Mitchso in the first paragraph. Maybe reorganized it and make it more corresponds to the following paragraphs.SamiT (talk) 21:49, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Ecological significance

This part is concise and contains rich information, I like it. While now it looks a little bit disjointed. Maybe put the climate-related info together and reorganize it.

Overall this is a great article, I enjoy reading it. Well done!SamiT (talk) 21:49, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

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