Sentences with phrase «small zooplankton»

It is filled with numerous species of seabirds, penguins, whales, seals, fish and small zooplankton like krill.

Wet biomass of small zooplankton (in equivalent spherical diameters between 0.1 and 1 mm) varied from 150 mg / m3 outside the krill super-aggregation to 10 mg / m3 within it.

To describe hydrographic conditions, chlorophyll - a concentration (an index of phytoplankton density) and density of small zooplankton, we used an integrated physical and biological sensor package: 2 pairs of conductivity - temperature - depth sensors (CTD, Seabird Electronics), a fluorometer (Wet Labs); a Laser In Situ Scattering and Transmissometer (Sequoia Scientific); and a Laser Optical Plankton Counter (Brooke Ocean Technologies).

How marine mammals will respond to the expected shift towards smaller phytoplankton and smaller zooplankton and a decrease in the lipid - rich food web is unclear.

Not exact matches

They typically feed on zooplankton and other micro-invertebrates, but under certain environmental conditions, a small percentage develop traits that include huge heads, wide mouths and elongated teeth.

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.

They incorporated the lifecycle of phytoplankton and zooplankton — small, often microscopic animals at the bottom of the food chain — into a novel mechanistic model for assessing the global ocean carbon export.

The microplastics found in the zooplankton in this study consisted of small fragments and fibers, but not the deliberately designed microbeads that may sink to the sediments in the ocean.

Whale shark diets vary both seasonally and geographically, but they are thought to feed mainly on zooplankton as well as algae, small fishes, fish eggs, and cephalopods.

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.

Some were as small as 0.2 millimeter, mixed among zooplankton!

Lawson will work with colleagues at the NEFSC to focus on the development of acoustic techniques for sampling zooplankton (animals that are suspended or drift in the water) and micronekton (small but actively swimming organisms) for ecosystem assessment.

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.

A common species of zooplankton — the smallest animals in the freshwater food web — can evolve genetic tolerance to moderate levels of road salt in as little as two and a half months, according to new research published online today in the journal Environmental Pollution.

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.

Those zooplankton are tiny creatures that drift in the sea and are an important food for small fish.

The Oregon coast produces lots of phytoplankton (small marine plants) which are eaten by zooplankton (small marine animals) including bottom dwelling amphipods and mysid shrimp — primary food of the Gray Whales.

They feed mainly on small shrimp - like crustaceans commonly known as krill, other zooplankton and small schooling fish.

The alga are the base of the food chain and are eaten by zooplankton and other small animals such as baby fish.

The toxins end up in filter feeders, such as shellfish, which draw algae out of the water, and in the stomachs of zooplankton and other small animals that feed on algae.

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.

The multiyear sea ice provides unique habitat for ice - associated phytoplankton, zooplankton, small invertebrates, and a few species of fish, as well as resting, breeding, and hunting platforms for marine mammals of several species [262].

The zooplankton is generally better known than bacterioplankton and phytoplankton, although limited information is available on the species composition and ecology of smaller zooplankters.

With fewer predators, there is also less competition for the jellyfish to feed on small fish and zooplankton.

They remain in the water supply, where they're often eaten by small fish, even zooplankton.

There is a small news item about giant viruses infecting zooplankton which affects ocean carbon flows.