By hitching a ride on a piece of floating plastic, they can stay near the surface without effort.
要是能搭上一块浮在水面上的塑料片,它们就能毫不费力地停留在海面附近。
Where plants abound, herbivores will not be far behind.
植物丰沛之地,食草动物也不会少。
These, Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found in the form of dinoflagellates, some of whichlike to snack on smaller creatures to supplement their photosynthesis.
明瑟和阿马拉尔赛特勒两位博士发现的食草动物的形式是鞭毛藻类,其中有些会将更小的生物当成点心,作为自己光合作用外的加餐。
They also found predators on the herbivores, in the form of ciliates and predator bacteria,which feed on other bacteria.
两位博士还发现了以这些食草动物为食的捕食者,存在形式是纤毛虫和以其他细菌为食的捕食性细菌。
Except for top predatorsthe type that themselves prey on predatorsthe two researchersthus discovered a classic web of food chains of the sort familiar from ecology text books.
要不是没发现顶层捕食者-捕食其他捕食者的捕食者-两位研究人员便会发现一张那种经常在生态学教科书中见到的典型食物网。
And they also, and perhaps most pertinently from the human point of view, found evidencefor one other part of such a food web: the decomposers.
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