Sentences with phrase «sized zooplankton»

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).

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Roughly the size of a starling, the little auk is a seabird that feasts almost entirely on tiny zooplankton.

«We tested how polystyrene plastic particles of different sizes, charge and surface affect the zooplankton Daphnia.

How does the enormous diversity of zooplankton species, life cycles, size, feeding ecology, and physiology affect their role in ocean food webs and cycling of carbon?

In theory, such zooplankton (ZO - plank - tin)-- tiny creatures that eat plant - like algae — could chow down on these toxic algae, reducing the size of a bloom.

What viruses, microbes, phytoplankton, zooplankton, and meiofauna lack in size, they often make up for in numbers.

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

The zooplankton that baby perch normally eat are the same size as are many of the tiny plastic bits found polluting lakes and oceans around the world.

Setälä and her colleagues used 10 - micrometre (µm) fluorescent polystyrene microspheres, which were roughly the same size as some of the food particles that tiny zooplankton, such as copepods and polychaete larvae, eat.

Before the current study, scientists thought that krill and other zooplankton could only create turbulence in their own size range — on the order of centimeters.

Discarded plastic fishing lines trap and entangle turtles and seabirds, and plastic pieces of all sizes choke and clog the stomachs of creatures who mistake it for food, from tiny zooplankton to whales.

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.