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Examples of plankton
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Plankton found in the estuaries nourish organisms all the way up the food chain.
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Then Jack sets out on a two-day excursion to track some new species of plankton.
From the ocregister.com
By their calculations, a 443cm whale shark could eat 1467g of plankton per hour.
From the scienceblogs.com
I wanted to be the person on the boat showing the plankton to the fifth graders.
From the thenewstribune.com
Plankton is the designation for the tiniest plant and animal life in open water.
From the sciencedaily.com
Some of the more unusual subjects have included plankton, wasps and cephalopods.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They eat vast quantities of plankton, a crucial link in the aquatic food chain.
From the dailyherald.com
Deepwater lophelia corals are white and feed on plankton carried by the currents.
From the sacbee.com
Right now we're eating tuna and salmon and other top predators, but not plankton.
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- The aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
- Plankton are any drifting organisms (animals, plants, archaea, or bacteria) that inhabit the pelagic zone of oceans, seas, or bodies of fresh water. Plankton are defined by their ecological niche rather than phylogenetic or taxonomic classification. ...
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- A generic term for all the organisms that float in the sea. A single organism is known as a plankter
- Primarily microscopic organisms that occupy the upper water layers in both freshwater and marine ecosystems.
- Tiny plants and animals that live in water.
- Minute floating forms of microscopic plants and animals in water which cannot get about to any extent under their own power. They form the important beginnings of food chains for larger animals.
- Plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton), usually microscopic, floating in aquatic systems.
