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 ...

Iron might limit zooplankton productivity in high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll regions. BESIKTEPE, S., AND H. G. DAM. 2002. Coupling of ingestion and defecation as a function of diet in the calanoid ...

of the copepod Leptodiaptomus garciai and the rotifers Hexarthra jenkinae and Brachionus sp. “Mexico,” which constitute the zooplankton assemblage of Alchichica, a high-altitude, deep, oligotrophic, ...

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.

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 ...

Nielsen peers through a microscope at a petri dish filled with copepods—tiny crustaceans that are the dominant members of pelagic zooplankton. A cluster of icebergs is visible through the window.

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