Turbulence generated by speeding motor boats kills significant numbers of zooplankton, a study has revealed for the first time. Experiments on copepods, tiny crustaceans that live and float in ...

The effect of Fe on copepod reproduction rates could not be explained by changes in ingestion rate and the rate of carbon assimilated, because there was no significant difference of ingestion rate and ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 6 (2015), pp. 2158-2172 (15 pages) Zooplankton inhabiting deep, oligotrophic, tropical lakes must cope with scenarios where the combination of resource ...

Zooplankton (drifting animals), includes copepods - tiny crustaceans thought to be the most numerous multi-celled organisms on Earth. It is the copepods that scientists believe "may help to store ...

The two most prominent types of plankton in the ocean are zooplankton, which are tiny animal organisms, and phytoplankton, which are plantlike. (Other forms of plankton include bacterial and fungal.

Microplastics widely distributed in the ocean are readily ingested by marine organisms, particularly zooplankton, whose food ...