Illustrate the factors that allow the aquatic pyramid of biomass to be inverted.

Answer:

In aquatic ecosystems, phytoplankton reproduce rapidly and are eaten quickly, so their standing biomass at any given moment may be smaller than the biomass of the zooplankton and other consumers they support. Their fast turnover continually replaces the phytoplankton, allowing consumer biomass to exceed producer biomass and creating an inverted biomass pyramid.