Sentences with phrase «zooplankton species»

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).

The insecticide decimated the populations of some larger zooplankton species, resulting in a bloom of algae.

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?

Not exact matches

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.

Even the species identification methods are deficient, regardless of the fact that gelatinous zooplankton can be abundant in the ecosystem and have a major effect on both the upper and lower levels of the food web,» says Majaneva.

Turner and Rooker then looked for these fatty acid signatures in five species of invertebrates, such as zooplankton, shrimp, and crabs, and nine species of fish.

To thrive, phytoplankton — the photosynthesizing organisms in the Arctic food web that support zooplankton, fish, and migratory species from Arctic terns to gray whales — need nutrients and light.

The voracious bottom - feeders can strip entire river ecosystems of zooplankton, the basic food of native fish species — and now they seem poised to breach the Great Lakes ecosystem.

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.

Research published in January showed that a common species of zooplankton can evolve genetic tolerance to moderate levels of sodium chloride in as little as two and a half months.

Zooplankton ecology, Copepod life history strategies and population dynamics, trophic interactions, coastal observing of zooplankton and ichthyoplankton seasonal species succession, zooplankton vertical distribution, fish recruitment processes and connectivity, laboratory experiments and field sampling.

For one thing, many fish species feed on zooplankton.

«While many branching corals dominate under normal pH conditions offering ample hiding space for the different species of zooplankton, ocean acidification shifts the community to large, massive bouldering corals, which offer the reef - associated plankton little opportunity for hiding».

Instead of densely branched branching corals, robust mounding species of hard coral grow, offering the zooplankton little shelter.

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 research builds on recent findings from the Jefferson Project at Lake George, showing that a common species of zooplankton, Daphnia pulex, can evolve tolerance to moderate levels of road salt in as little as two and a half months.

Remarkably, the bacterial diversity of recently hatched paralarvae in captivity was similar to that of wild paralarvae and zooplankton, thus suggesting a marked effect of the diet in both the microbial community species diversity and evenness.

This species unique ability to dive by beating its wings for propulsion allows it to hunt down large zooplankton, especially krill.

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

There's no mystery to the fact that phytoplankton feeds zooplankton (call them copepods if you like), which in turn feeds larger species and so on up the ocean food chain.

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The abundance feeds zooplankton and zooplankton fish and shrimp — with changes in abundance and species composition appearing all the way up the trophic chain.

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.

Blooms can be a blessing to other marine species, as these tiny floating plants often feed everything from zooplankton to fish to whales.