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 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 ...

“Since zooplankton eat algae and fish eat zooplankton ... as environmentally friendly — may harm important freshwater ...

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 ...

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 ...