34cygni
This must be the mother of all posts here on Reef Central.
It's very fitting having this extremely detailed insight into bacteria on page 101.
This is something we humans have a problem comprehending even though it's an important and a huge world it's also mostly invisible to us.
There is no doubt that this microscopic world plays a big part in reefs life and death, but how exactly is another matter. The demise of massive coccolithophore blooms, in just a few days, by a virus, have been documented so they hold a force to be reckoned with.
I found your wall of text to be very interesting and well done and clearly it took a lot of effort to research and get in writing. I think many with a diploma would not have done any better with this difficult matter.
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