A practice that overlooked the smaller phytoplankton( namoplatnkton) that we now know grazers are most likely to feed on, led to a de-emphasis of the role of grazers in subsequent research.

• 由于一贯忽视较小的浮游植物，我们现在知道食草动物是很可能以浮游植物为食，导致我们对食草动物在后来的研究中没有能够重视！