Brown layers of phytoplankton on tidal flats, Japsand, National Park Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea, Germany

Brown layers of phytoplankton on tidal flats, Japsand, National Park Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea, Germany

The tidal flats of the Wadden Sea are of highest bio-productivity. The base of the food-chain is often phytoplancton such as unicellular diatoms, which here are visible as brown carpet on the flats. On 26 June 2009, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed the Dutch-German Wadden Sea on the World Heritage List. The Wadden Sea…

  • Produced by:
    Peter Prokosch
  • Year:
    01/02/2012

Brown layers of phytoplankton on tidal flats, Japsand, National Park Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea, Germany

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