Sentences with phrase «copepods from»

To find out, Lasley - Rasher and her colleagues collected many copepods from the Gulf of Maine in plankton nets.

The baleen fringes strain out the copepods from the water.

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But what has not been calculated before is the impact that the copepod's long journey and hibernation at depth has on the ability of the ocean to store carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere.

Scientists once relied on continuous plankton sampling to track the copepods, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations» National Marine Fisheries Service discontinued the program, preventing researchers from observing ecosystem changes as they occur.

In an experiment with organisms from the Kiel Fjord, a team of biologists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel demonstrated for the first time, that ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton community.

Bowhead whales are assumed to feed on pelagic and epibenthic zooplankton in late summer and fall (Finley 2001; Lowry et al. 2004; Pomerleau et al. 2011b), and on pre-ascending diapausing calanoid copepods in late winter and early spring, based on data from Disko Bay, Greenland (Heide - Jørgensen et al. 2012; Laidre et al. 2007).