Sentences with phrase «among zooplankton»

Among the zooplankton, detritivorous components of the small size fraction (< 1000 μm) fed and reproduced actively during the same period whereas the large fraction resumed high metabolic activity in late March, well before the spring release of ice algae and phytoplankton bloom.

Some were as small as 0.2 millimeter, mixed among zooplankton!

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The $ 3.7 million, distributed among eight research teams, will fund model Internet atlases that display everything from the distribution of squids to the DNA sequences of tiny zooplankton.

Almost all oil comes from pressure - cooking dead zooplankton and algae — pond scum, in other words — which are among the oldest and most abundant life forms on earth.

One of the most common zooplankton, krill are among the most abundant marine organisms and migrate daily in giant swarms, heading hundreds of meters deep by day and up to the ocean's surface by night to feed.

Such phenological plasticity among key secondary producers like zooplankton may thus narrow the risks of extreme mismatch between primary production and secondary production in an increasingly variable arctic environment.