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.

Have you seen the clear, gelatinous creatures all over Grand Strand beaches? Here’s what the blobs are and why they’re ...

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 waters has increased. Land use and climate change are creating new ...

Zooplankton accelerate that process with ... Sharma plans to field-test the method by spraying clay on phytoplankton blooms off the coast of Southern California using a crop-dusting airplane.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Salps are zooplankton, which the Environmental Protection Agency calls “the animals of the planktonic community.” While phytoplankton produce energy from the sun, zooplankton consume their energy.