Sentences with phrase «crustacean zooplankton»
When the theory was tested in a 115 - square - mile area of the Southern Ocean, tiny crustacean zooplankton ate up all the phytoplankton.
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Scientists did not count on the phytoplankton, stimulated by the dumped iron, being eaten by tiny crustacean zooplankton.
However, the scientists from India's National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) did not count on these phytoplankton being eaten by tiny crustacean zooplankton.
In a paper just published in the Journal of Plankton Research, two Canadian marine scientists, Sonia Batten and James Gower, reported evidence of a critical intervening step — a growth spurt in just the right kind of tiny animals, crustacean zooplankton, that young salmon thrive on.
These include Arctic cod and capelin, while krill and Calanus finmarchicus are replaced by Arctic amphipoda (another group of crustacean zooplankton), which live on ice algae which are also absent from Atlantic water.
The researchers conducted a six - week experiment manipulating the presence of sunfish and water temperature using two non-native and native crustacean zooplankton.
Not exact matches
The dragon's bizarre snout sucks up tiny crustaceans and zooplankton for meals, while its leaflike protrusions provide clever camouflage — just the thing to escape the clutches of ocean predators.
These small crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, Mantas, whale sharks, Crabeater seals and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them.
The up to one millimetre long crustaceans form about eighty per cent of the zooplankton and are an important food for fish and their larvae.
The abundance of some zooplankton (i.e. microscopic crustaceans in the water that eat algae) was lower at higher salt concentrations, but not low enough to cause a bloom of algae.
They feed mainly on small shrimp - like crustaceans commonly known as krill, other zooplankton and small schooling fish.