zooplankton

How To Use zooplankton In A Sentence

• 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.
• For example, the blooms of jellyfish that have increased rapidly worldwide in the last decade are believed to result in part from “fishing down the food web” – as fisheries depleted large predators they turned to smaller, plankton-feeding fishes such as anchovy and sprat, whose removal allowed zooplankton populations to increase, providing abundant food for jellyfish. Marine biodiversity and food security
• Censusing the diverse, spectacular world of sea bugs called zooplankton EurekAlert! - Breaking News
• This contrast may be due in part to differences in generation time between phytoplankton and zooplankton.
• 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
• The predatory impacts of Cercopagis pengoi, a planktivorous cladoceran were assessed by examining patterns in the distribution and population dynamics of macrozooplankton.
• Furthermore zooplankton indication of the Yellow Sea Warm Current ( YSWC ) in winter was discussed.
• Our results suggest that in eutrophic lakes fish predation on zooplankton may be more important than nutrient excretion by fish for the structure and dynamics of planktonic communities.
• Faecal pellets of zooplankton and benthic crustaceans can also have a different mineralogy from the suspended clay in the ambient sea water.
• The efficiency of retention is strongly determined by the occurrence of a match (where zooplankton are available to graze and recycle the primary production) or mismatch (where zooplankton are not present in sufficient numbers and primary production sinks out of the euphotic zone to be grazed by the benthos). Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota