Censusing the diverse, spectacular world of sea bugs called zooplankton.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Soon, however, tiny animals called zooplankton "graze down" the algae, and the population plunges.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

It is eaten by zooplankton which is in turn eaten by other animals, which are then consumed by yet further sea creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Internet Press] Reference

These are areas of zooplankton accumulation (see Bas, 1993).    From Wordnik.com.  [Canary Current large marine ecosystem] Reference

The concentration of phytoplankton was 15-65/L; zooplankton was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

That is, zooplankton can eat only certain types of phytoplankton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antarctic ozone hole] Reference

Bacterial biomass is low as well, and zooplankton are not very abundant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic] Reference

As of 2004, scientists had identified about 7,000 species of zooplankton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Census Of Marine Life Tries To Account For Thousands Of Microscopic Sea Creatures] Reference

Climatic warming and the decline of zooplankton in the California Current.    From Wordnik.com.  [California Current large marine ecosystem] Reference

They graze on zooplankton and small fishes in temperate and subpolar waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary] Reference

Seasonal variations of the zooplankton population density are shown in figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Special caution was taken to control the zooplankton density within a range of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Marine chlorella cultured in the sludge were then fed back to the zooplankton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Consider zooplankton, the tiny, often transparent animals that some call sea bugs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Census Of Marine Life Tries To Account For Thousands Of Microscopic Sea Creatures] Reference

The primary consumers are mainly zooplankton, herbivorous animals, and plant pests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Thus phytoplankton are considered the first tropic level, zooplankton the second, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [General description of the Arctic biota] Reference

There are fewer phytoplankton (625 500/mL or 2.4 mg/L of water) and fewer zooplankton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

(E. intestinalis) were grown, together with the zooplankton, in the zigzag stream unit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The appendage provides habitat for phyto-and zooplankton which attracts small pelagic fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Such changes are important because not all species of phytoplankton are edible by zooplankton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antarctic ozone hole] Reference

At night, when it is closer to the surface, Mysis feeds on both zooplankton and phytoplankton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crustacea] Reference

Bacteria are rich in protein and are eaten by zooplankton and benthos animals as well as by fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Eggs of some zooplankton species have remained viable for up to 300 years in the absence of water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crustacea] Reference

Instead, Mysis ate the zooplankton that all the smallest fish (too small to eat Mysis) had depended on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crustacea] Reference

Consequences of climate-induced salinity increases on zooplankton abundance and diversity in coastal lakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Secondary salinization] Reference

Diel vertical migrations by zooplankton consist of moving up in the water at night and down in the day time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plankton] Reference

The zooplankton community is generally composed of copepods, but mysidacea are also important in all regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canary Current large marine ecosystem] Reference

For a map of distribution of zooplankton biomass in the Bay of Bengal LME, see Desai and Bhargava, 1998, p. 303.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bay of Bengal large marine ecosystem] Reference

The dominant zooplankton species are Sagitta crassa, Calanus sinicus, Euphausia pacifica, and Themisto gracilipes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yellow Sea large marine ecosystem] Reference

The B. plicatilis and T. japonicus proportions of the zooplankton community, by body volume, are given in figure 8.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

zooplankton data confirmed strong bottom-up trophic linkages between phytoplankton, zooplankton, and resident fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bottom-up control] Reference

In the ricefield, zooplankton, herbivorous animals, some insects, and pathogenic bacteria are the primary consumers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

In addition, much of the bacteria, plankton, zooplankton, and part of the benthos, are usually discharged with the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Changes in northern Baltic zooplankton and herring nutrition from 1980s to 1990s: top-down and bottom-up processes at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltic Sea large marine ecosystem] Reference

The table shows the inverted biomass pyramid which is typical for phytoplankton and zooplankton in the marine pelagic food web.    From Wordnik.com.  [General description of the Arctic biota] Reference

Saint-Paul, U., 1999b: Stable isotope composition of particulate organic matter and zooplankton in northeast Brazilian shelf waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Brazil Shelf large marine ecosystem] Reference

Examples of indicators of the productivity module are photosynthetic activity, zooplankton biodiversity and oceanographic variability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Large marine ecosystems] Reference

For example, the sediment record from a lake in Finland shows that Cladocera, a type of zooplankton, began to appear around 150 years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Broad-scale effects of climate change on freshwater systems in the Arctic] Reference