Sentences with phrase «including copepods»

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The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

Now, the robot's first findings are already helping scientists piece together more of this previously hidden under - ice food web, including more evidence of the under - ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans.

Then in 1997 and 1998, they and their colleagues sampled copepods in the Adriatic Sea during diatom blooms in winter, when the copepods feast primarily on diatoms, and during the summer, when diatom numbers are down and copepods eat a more mixed diet that includes other algae.

These include UV - bulbs, T - 5 bulbs, halide bulbs, phosphate removers, nitrate reducers, Kalkwasser beads, marine salt, buffers for pH and KH, chemicals for test kits and test kits in general, reef - safe ich medications, Aiptasia killers, red slime removers, phyto - foods for corals, zoo - foods for corals, live bacteria for starting new tanks, reef additives (such as calcium, magnesium, iodine, etc.), live sand and live feeder items (fish, shrimp, copepods and macro-algae).

The analysis of individual bowhead whale stomach contents revealed the broad foraging spectrum of bowhead whales including a dominant contribution of the epibenthic mysid species, Mysis oculata, along with arctic copepods Metridia longa and Calanus spp. and the amphipod Themisto spp. and Onisimus spp. (Pomerleau et al. 2011b).

Shelf copepods, including species both large (Calanus marshallae, Acartia clausii, and A. longemirus), and small (e.g. Pseudocalanus species and Oithona similas), dominate this biota.