Why is Trichodesmium important?
These coloured pigments absorb the sunlight energy that drives photosynthesis. Nitrogen is essential to life. … Trichodesmium deserve our respect because they are ‘nitrogen fixers’- this means that they can take nitrogen gas from air and ‘fix’ it in a form that can then be transferred into the food chain. Is Trichodesmium toxic? Trichodesmium blooms…