Sentences with phrase «called zooplankton»

The creatures that eat the tiny plants, including fish and tiny animals called zooplankton, have adapted to make the most of these blooms.

In a balanced ecosystem, tiny animals called zooplankton graze on phytoplankton.

They swim with their mouths open, devouring algae, tiny aquatic animals called zooplankton and the eggs of other fish.

Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to a new study by Dr. Peter Ross, head of the Ocean Pollution Research Program at Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre.

That disruption can at least double methylmercury concentrations in microscopic grazers called zooplankton, researchers report January 27 in Science Advances.

Not exact matches

There's no mystery to the fact that phytoplankton feeds zooplankton (call them copepods if you like), which in turn feeds larger species and so on up the ocean food chain.