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Can you conclude that the diesel contamination is toxic to microalgae in the sediment?

Can you conclude that the diesel contamination is toxic to microalgae in the sediment?

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No, the diesel contamination is not toxic to microalgae in the sediment. Each individual microalgal species possess chloroplasts as their functional units in preparing the nutrients for their survival and they are positioned upright in the seawater and they absorb sunlight and they possess air bladders (to to keep them in upright position) in order to do photosynthesis. Microalgae are photosynthetic diatom and it is a member of benthic community. Meiofauna grazers (small fish etc.) are the intermediate level of consumers and these are going to feed on microalgae. Contaminated diesel is severe pollutant and destroys these meiofauna grazers result in increased microalgal biomass of food web in the sediment of aquatic systems. This increased density of microalgae population is due to low abundance of consumer activity on producers considered as “reduced grazing hypothesis”.    

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