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resource space available to photoautotrophs (less mineral nutrients due to increased  competition from osmotrophic heterotrophs). To test how resource dynamics  affect membership of planktonic communities and assembly of biofilm communities  we amended a series of flow-through mesocosms with Cand P  to alter the availability of C among treatments. Each mesocosm was fed with unfiltered  seawater and incubated with sterilized microscope slides as surfaces for  biofilm formation. We used 454 pyrosequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA gene  and 23S plastid genes to characterize biofilm and planktonic community  membership and structure. The highest C treatment had the highest planktonic heterotroph abundance, lowest planktonic  photoautotroph abundance, and highest biofilm