phytoplankton

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• Phytoplankton are critical for feeding larval fish.
• Actually, most people don't know that this tiny plant life called phytoplankton is so small -- as small as bacteria -- that more than one trillion of them exist in a single drop of water. Alexia Parks: Your Life Depends Upon This Tiny Plant
• The fourth chapter in Section III examines phytoplankton and bacterioplankton production variations and concludes with a look at the trophic levels in the lake. Lake Chapala: a review of "The Lerma-Lake Chapala watershed: evaluation and management"
• Oil and gas was formed around 100 million years ago when tiny marine plants and animals called phytoplankton and zooplankton floated on the sea's surface.
• Discrimination technology for bacillariophyta and pyrrophyta was established by chlorophyll fluorescence excitation spectra of phytoplankton.
• Losses of species diversity in phytoplankton, periphyton, macroalgae and macrophyte communities Inorganic nitrogen pollution in aquatic ecosystems~ causes and consequences
• Tiny, plant-like organisms—phytoplankton—thrive throughout the Southern Hemisphere's spring and summer on an abundance of nutrients and long hours of sunlight.
• This contrast may be due in part to differences in generation time between phytoplankton and zooplankton.
• The satellites monitor the green pigment in plants, or chlorophyll, which leads to estimates of phytoplankton amounts.
• When phytoplankton explode in population during the blooms, tiny animals called zooplankton - which include krill and other small crustaceans - likewise expand in number as they harvest the phytoplankton. Shifting spring: Arctic plankton blooming up to 50 days earlier now