Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from Ancient Greek: ζῷον, romanized: zôion... 76 KB (7,030 words) - 05:39, 28 April 2024 |
Plankton (section Gelatinous zooplankton) destroyed. Gelatinous zooplankton are often transparent. All jellyfish are gelatinous zooplankton, but not all gelatinous zooplankton are jellyfish. The... 62 KB (6,455 words) - 06:05, 26 April 2024 |
destroyed. Gelatinous zooplankton are often transparent. All jellyfish are gelatinous zooplankton, but not all gelatinous zooplankton are jellyfish. The... 42 KB (4,326 words) - 15:56, 4 October 2023 |
Biological pump (redirect from Zooplankton grazing) dissolved organic matter (DOM) and are consumed by herbivorous zooplankton. Larger zooplankton - such as copepods - egest fecal pellets which can be reingested... 145 KB (16,299 words) - 20:02, 23 April 2024 |
The Census of Marine Zooplankton is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that has aimed to produce a global assessment of the species diversity... 3 KB (167 words) - 07:21, 28 January 2023 |
Planktivore (section Zooplankton: predators and prey) planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton. Planktivorous organisms encompass a range of some... 72 KB (8,392 words) - 00:23, 7 April 2024 |
Canary Current (section Upwelling and zooplankton) the zooplankton to stay over the shelf where their food supply exists. Due to the rapid response of phytoplankton to upwelled nutrients, zooplankton are... 8 KB (1,040 words) - 08:40, 17 November 2023 |
Mesopelagic zone (section Zooplankton ecology) particles, which can be accelerated through repackaging of organic matter in zooplankton fecal pellets, ballasted particles, and aggregates. In the mesopelagic... 50 KB (6,024 words) - 18:27, 5 March 2024 |
opposed to the benthic zone. Holoplankton include both phytoplankton and zooplankton and vary in size. The most common plankton are protists. Holoplankton... 5 KB (512 words) - 21:04, 23 June 2021 |
food source to zooplankton and fish migrating from the deep layers and seabirds. The neustonic animals form a subset of the zooplankton community, which... 28 KB (2,904 words) - 20:38, 21 March 2024 |
niches. A limnetic zooplankton population will usually consist of two to four species, each in a different genus. In addition to zooplankton, organisms in... 4 KB (499 words) - 03:58, 3 December 2023 |
the food chain. They feed on phytoplankton and, to a lesser extent, zooplankton, and are also the main source of food for many larger animals. In the... 66 KB (6,366 words) - 11:16, 18 April 2024 |
for zooplankton. Thus a self-sustaining biological process can take place to generate primary food source for the phytoplankton and zooplankton depending... 77 KB (8,196 words) - 09:23, 3 April 2024 |
mainly phytoplankton. Important animals that live in European seas are zooplankton, molluscs, echinoderms, different crustaceans, squids and octopuses,... 239 KB (21,874 words) - 13:33, 25 April 2024 |
Japan, but has been introduced widely elsewhere. It feeds primarily on zooplankton. P. punctata generally can reach up to 50 centimetres (20 in) in bell... 10 KB (1,158 words) - 23:06, 24 March 2024 |
Marine life (section Zooplankton) extrudes a large feeding veil to capture prey. Larger zooplankton can be predatory on smaller zooplankton. Macrozooplankton Moon jellyfish Venus girdle, a... 304 KB (29,026 words) - 22:50, 26 April 2024 |
and midwater feeder. Adults feed on zooplankton using large gill rakers, but young ones feed on both zooplankton and phytoplankton. Catla attains sexual... 5 KB (499 words) - 07:19, 26 April 2024 |
1984 to zero in 1993." Now that the comb jellies have exhausted the zooplankton, including fish larvae, their numbers have fallen dramatically, yet they... 99 KB (11,599 words) - 21:30, 24 April 2024 |
Marine microorganisms (section Zooplankton) life) are zooplankton, including zooflagellates, foraminiferans, radiolarians, some dinoflagellates and marine microanimals. Macroscopic zooplankton (not generally... 232 KB (21,384 words) - 06:01, 14 April 2024 |
Oxygen minimum zone (section Zooplankton) from deep water. The increased nutrients support phytoplankton blooms, zooplankton grazing, and an overall productive food web at the surface. The byproducts... 29 KB (4,352 words) - 06:29, 17 February 2024 |