Sentences with phrase «larger zooplankton»
The insecticide decimated the populations of some larger zooplankton species, resulting in a bloom of algae.
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Carbon and nitrogen isotopes suggested that the fatty acids were funneled from phytoplankton to the larger zooplankton and shrimp, and finally into fish.
This species unique ability to dive by beating its wings for propulsion allows it to hunt down large zooplankton, especially krill.
All water was combined into an approximately 500 l container and subsampled after filtering through 80 µm mesh to remove large zooplankton.
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The large blooms provide ample food for zooplankton, which are also plentiful in the Strait.
Previous studies have documented the impact of plastic debris on more than 660 marine species — from the smallest of zooplankton to the largest whales, including fish destined for the seafood market — but none have quantified the worldwide amount entering the ocean from land.
This could likely have implications for the zooplankton that usually graze on larger diatoms and in turn the fish that eat those zooplankton.
«While many branching corals dominate under normal pH conditions offering ample hiding space for the different species of zooplankton, ocean acidification shifts the community to large, massive bouldering corals, which offer the reef - associated plankton little opportunity for hiding».
The researchers discovered that the charr have split into two phenotypes - a large «robust» charr that feeds on benthic zooplankton, and a smaller more «delicate» form, which predominately feeds on plankton.
Although the work was carried out in the lab, the research is the first to show that migrating zooplankton — or any organism — can create turbulence at a scale large enough to mix the ocean's waters.
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.
The predicted continuous warming trend of the ocean surface temperature is expected to favour the growth of smaller phytoplankton cells (picophytoplankton replacing large diatoms) that in turn would also favour small - sized zooplankton species (Li et al. 2009).
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.