"Plankton" in marine biology means any plant or animal that is too small to swim against the ocean's currents. They are a keystone species for many marine food webs and provide food for numerous other organisms like large whales, fish, and crustaceans. What are the 3 types of plankton?
zooplankton caught by five different types of plankton nets was performed on the basis of the data of plankton surveys in various high production zones of the Pacific Ocean (392 zooplankton samples) in order to determine conversion coefficients for a more adequate quantitative estimation of plankton....
In the open ocean, far from the influences of coastal human habitation, sea water still contains huge numbers of microbes. Coastal areas can contain even greater concentrations. Vast numbers of bacteria andplanktonoccur both at the surface and in deep ocean waters. Viruses are entities that requir...
Algal Blooms in the Ocean The ocean, that vast body of water covering 71 percent of the Earth's surface, is divided into four major basins: the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Oceans. These large basins are interconnected with various shallow seas, such as the Mediterranean Sea, the ...
Planktons Planktons do not depend on other organisms for movement and they can swim for hundreds of kilometres per day. Plankton’s horizontal position depends on the water movement surrounding them and they also flow with the ocean currents. In contrast to the nekton organisms, such as fish,...
Whale sharksare the largest fish in the world and can grow up to 40 feet in length. They are found in warm waters around the world and are known for their gentle nature. Whale sharks are filter feeders, meaning that they feed on plankton and small fish by swimming with their mouths open...
The freshwater ecosystem refers to the aquatic ecosystem containing consumable water, as opposed to marine ecosystems, they are concerned with the ecosystem found in the lakes, ponds, rivers, springs, freshwater swamps that have fresh water. They nurture planktons, algae, insects, amphibians and und...
It affects the pH of the oceans and seas, which are becoming more acidic, leading to ocean acidification. As a result, marine creatures like corals and plankton are affected as they cannot form their shells and skeletons in such acidic water, which erodes their shells or skeletons. ...
feeding on plankton and bacteria filtered through their many pores, and which can live not just hundreds, but thousands of years. The species emerged some 570 million years ago, meaning glass sponges predate all land-dwelling life. The scientific community long believed glass sponges to be extinct...
"Our work not only provides a relatively complete catalog of surface ocean viruses, but also reveals new ways that viruses modulate greenhouse gases and energy in the oceans," he said. At any given time, about one in three cells in the ocean is infected with a virus, altering the way the...