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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.
• Marine diatom cells (Rhizosolenia setigera), a group of phytoplankton Oceans at Risk
• This is called a phytoplankton "bloom" and in the blooming, these little guys take up tons of CO2 out of the water, which in turn pulls CO2 out of the air (ie, atmosphere), and - presto! Rebecca Anderson: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction)
• The scientists found that long-term phytoplankton declines were negatively correlated with rising sea surface temperatures and changing oceanographic conditions. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
• Oceans  Shallow ocean waters (euphotic zone) contain a greater concentration of organisms than the rest of the sea  Phytoplankton (algae) is food not only for zooplankton (protozoans and microscopic animals) but also for small fishes  Coral reefs - areas of biological abundance just below the surface in shallow, warm, tropical waters  Chief constituents are stony corals, animals that have a calcium carbonate (limestone) exoskeleton, and calcareous red and green algae  Most of the ocean lies within the pelagic zone  Epipelagic zone lacks the inorganic nutrients of shallow waters, and therefore it does not have as high a concentration of phytoplankton  Animals in the deeper waters of the mesopelagic zone are carnivores, which are adapted to the absence of light,  Waters of the bathypelagic zone are in complete darkness except for an occasional flash of bioluminescent light  Abyssal plain - many invertebrates survive there by feeding on debris floating down from the mesopelagic zone Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• It is interesting that they found a lower incidence of food limitation in K. cochlearis from an oligotrophic lake than we found in a eutrophic pond which presumably had a higher total biomass of phytoplankton.