Sentences with phrase «water copepods»

Not exact matches

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.

Up top there is Beth, a former biology teacher, whose task is to help Christy gather water samples to count copepods, and Eliza, a Harvard student interning for her third summer and who is today's photographer.

Researchers must understand their subjects only by glimpses, bodies on beaches, orby what RV Shearwater is doing today, which is taking samples of water, squirting them with formaldehyde, then analyzing how rich the water is in copepods and what that means for the reproduction, health, and survival of the right whale.

The baleen fringes strain out the copepods from the water.

Copepods, the tiny crustaceans that dwarf seahorses eat, are highly sensitive to changes in the water around them.

Experiments with copepods showed that climate change can transform zooplankton into «fast food» of poor quality: The organisms that make up about 80 per cent of the zooplankton actually benefit if more phytoplankton grows because more carbon dioxide is dissolved in the water.

In an experiment with organisms from the Kiel Fjord, a team of biologists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel demonstrated for the first time, that ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton community.