How would a free floating ecosystem on an ocean world function?

The world in question is an Earth-sized planet with a deep global ocean and core of water-ice.

Given the lack of an accessible sea floor to root oneself to, how would a complex free-floating organism function? How might nutrients enter the system? Is this sort of system plausible?

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