Alex Mustard / Group of dead Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) and eggs in their spawning river. Salmon die after spawning, but the nutrient boost provided by the decaying bodies, powers the food chain that ultima...
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Alex Mustard / 2020VISION / Seaweeds, including Spaghetti seaweed (Himanthalia elongata) growing in a shallow channel, Cairns of Coll, Island of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, UK, July. Did you know? Kelp like the spaghetti sea...
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Piotr Naskrecki / Ant Plant (Hydnophytum sp) caudex with cross-section showing smooth-walled chambers that provide home for ants which leave behind their nutrient-rich waste products, Papua New Guinea, composite image
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SINCLAIR STAMMERS / A petri dish contains the Slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) which is growing in culture on nutrient agar.
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Norbert Wu / Dense school of mysids are indicators of nutrient-rich waters, Vancouver Island, Canada
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Willem Kolvoort / Looking up at White water lily leaves (Nymphaea alba) through murky water, indicative of nutrient rich water, peat bog lake, Holland
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Willem Kolvoort / Underside view of Lesser duckweed (Lemna minor) in a nutrient rich ditch near Lake Naarden, Holland
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Willem Kolvoort / Sludge worms (Tubifex rivilorum) These worms live in the sludge of nutrient rich waters and factory effluents. Aquarium, Holland
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Willem Kolvoort / Sludge worms (Tubifex rivilorum) These worms live in the sludge of nutrient rich waters and factory effluents. Aquarium, Holland
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Mark Moffett / Ant (Philidris sp) group feeding on the oily orange spores of a host fern The ants live in the fern's stem, where they gather nutrient rich debris to create compost for the fern, Borneo
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Mark Moffett / Ant Plant (Hydnophytum sp) which grows plastered to tree trunks, provides ants (Philidris sp) with a home, drawing nutrient from insect parts collected and brought home by the ants
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Mark Moffett / Ant (Philidris sp) group lives in the fern's speckled stem, where they drag nutrient rich debris to create compost for the fern Orange spores provide food source for ants, Bako, Borneo