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mineral nutrients (for simplicity we illustrate competition for P but this is equally applicable other elements that may limit primary production). We hypothesized that this predicted change in biomass pool size  of these two groups will result in changes in the plankton community  composition of both groups that will propagate to to the composition of biofilm  communities for both groups. We refer to shifts in the demand and availability of resources among components of the microbial community as 'partitioning. Blue rods represent heterotrophs, green stars represent photoautotrophs, brown diamonds represent EPS or other cohesive components of a biofilm.