Have a pretty bad bloom currently and am wondering if it's going to cause issues for my beloved nitrifying bacteria
Alternatively, why isn't the world a LOT more plant like? What caused the first carnivore/omnivore to become the way it was? There is a LOT of diversity in plants as it were, and I could see similar features available to carnivores being done alternatively as an herbivore, or at least allowing most, if not all, organisms access to hybrid photosynthesis/heterotrophic behavior.
Can't quite think of the downsides to it aside from how complicated the process is as well as the energy needed (on a plant's scale [size], anyway) to do so.
What would be the consequences of things like this? I'm thinking of life as it were, but evolving more towards the path of photosynthetic skin/epidermis.
