During my two years earning the MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business with a concentration in economics, I thought Iâd follow a path similar to others in my cohort. Iâd earned a law degree, co-founded an innovative startup, and was ready to try something different â I just wasnât sure what. I received offers from banks and consulting firms, but I also received an offer to study abroad for a term at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Phytoplankton eat small bacteria, which eat decomposing matter. They are in the blue whale's food chain. Most plankton, known as phytoplankton, (but not all) eat in much the same way as do plants - through photosynthesis, the process by which sunlight is converted into food energy. More. Planktonic animals mostly eat other plankton, incluing the planktonic plants described above, and smaller animals which are also plankton.
Scallops filter plankton from the water internally. Squid eat small fish which eat plankton, and even the mighty humpback whale dines on small fish which eat plankton. Higher on the food chain, sharks eat fish, which eat smaller fish, which eat plankton. Without zooplankton, small fish would starve, and without them, the larger fish would starve. So, nearly everything in the ocean somehow depends on the zooplankton. But the zooplankton eat the phytoplankton, so ultimately, the drifting phytoplankton keep the entire ecosystem in the ocean going.