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.

Scientists are gaining new insights into how plankton supports life on Earth — just as climate change is changing everything. Zooplankton seen under a microscope at the Bigelow Laboratory for ...

Zooplankton are one of the most diverse and abundant groups of organisms on Earth and they play an essential role in the marine food chain. Unable to photosynthesise, as phytoplankton do ...

Clean and safe lake water is an important part of the Finnish identity. In recent decades, interest in the condition of lake ...

Plankton is the name given to a collection of tiny sea life that lives in the ocean. These minute organisms may be small, but they have a big role to play in maintaining the health of our oceans ...

Four examples of instruments currently used for automated imaging methods in plankton monitoring ... chamber to record high-resolution images of zooplankton samples. C - The Imaging FlowCytobot ...

This behavioral component, coupled to a nutrient-phytoplankton-zooplankton (NPZ) productivity model provides estimates of the active transport of carbon by different size fractions of the migrating ...

The palinurid or spiny lobsters and the genus Scyllarides of the scyllarid or slipper lobsters may spend anywhere from 6-12 months adrift in the plankton feeding on small bodied zooplankton before ...