At all of the vent sites, the microbes are the drivers for all primary productivity.
They’re all the chemosynthetic organisms.
Like, on land you have plants that are your primary producers, but at these vents, you have these chemosynthetic microbes.
This is a suction sample.
You have some good material.
So I got these whopping pieces. But you don’t need a lot to look at volcanic microbial communities.
So I make the most out of what I have.
Stop thinking about vent stuff all the time, man.