Sentences with phrase «zooplankton known»

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«We know far too little of the ctenophore and other animals of the gelatinous zooplankton, such as medusae.

Swarms of tiny oceanic organisms known collectively as zooplankton may have an outsize influence on their environment.

For years, shrimp and their other tiny, uncharismatic brethren collectively known as zooplankton were deemed too...

Outi Setälä, the first author of the study and a senior researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, says that scientists have known since the 1980s that zooplankton will eat microplastics.

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

Finally, a question for David and Gavin: McNeil & Matear (2008, PNAS 2Dec08, «Southern Ocean acidification: A tipping at 450 - ppm atmospheric CO2») suggest that by 2030 and no later than 2038 seasonal aragonite undersaturation is likely to disrupt the Southern Ocean ecosystem, due to key forms of zooplankton being unable to form shells.

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