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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |