Sentences with phrase «much zooplankton»

Those levels give the researchers an idea of how much zooplankton is around the area that the whales could feed on.

Not exact matches

Much as migrating birds or spawning insects rely on the timing of spring so that there is enough available food when they arrive in a given region, so, too, the salmon rely on the timing of phytoplankton blooms, followed by the zooplankton bloom that then feeds baby salmon.

At ocean depths from 500 to 3,000 meters, they don't swim so much as float, and they get by with little oxygen while consuming a low - calorie diet of zooplankton and detritus.

Phytoplankton, the nutritive basis for much of ocean life, stimulates the production of zooplankton, which provides forage for larval fish, and so on.

But under moderate concentrations, much higher than those found in Lake George, these zooplankton evolved higher tolerance,» said Relyea.

The results also reveal that twilight zone bacteria and zooplankton have a special synergy that plays a prominent role in how much carbon reaches the deep ocean.