zooplankton

Examples of zooplankton in the following topics:

• Planktonic Food Webs

  • Primarily by grazing on phytoplankton, zooplankton provide carbon to the planktic foodweb, either respiring it to provide metabolic energy, or upon death as biomass or detritus.
  • For example, at interannual scales phytoplankton levels temporarily plummet during El Nino periods, influencing populations of zooplankton, fish, sea birds, and marine mammals.
  • Additionally, changes in the mortality of phytoplankton due to rates of zooplankton grazing may be significant.
  • Zooplankton are the initial prey item for almost all fish larvae as they switch from their yolk sacs to external feeding.
  • Fish rely on the density and distribution of zooplankton to match that of new larvae, which can otherwise starve.

• Planktonic Communities

  • Plankton are primarily divided into broad functional (or trophic level) groups: Phytoplankton , Zooplankton, and Bacterioplankton.
  • Zooplankton (from Greek zoon, or animal), small protozoans or metazoans (e.g. crustaceans and other animals) that feed on other plankton and telonemia.
  • Additionally, changes in the mortality of phytoplankton due to rates of zooplankton grazing may be significant.
  • Zooplankton are the initial prey item for almost all fish larvae as they switch from their yolk sacs to external feeding.
  • Fish rely on the density and distribution of zooplankton to match that of new larvae, which can otherwise starve.

• Wastewater and Sewage Treatment

  • Water is stored in a lagoon and native plants, bacteria, algae, and small zooplankton filter nutrients and small particles from the water.

• Petroleum Biodegradation

  • It is a product of decaying organic matter, such as algae and zooplankton.

• Ecological Pyramids

  • However, the phytoplankton in the English Channel example make up less biomass than the primary consumers, the zooplankton.

• Marine Biomes

  • Phytoplankton and floating Sargassum, a marine seaweed, provide a habitat for some sea life found in the neritic zone, including zooplankton, protists, small fishes, and shrimp, which are the base of the food chain for most of the world's fisheries.

• Phylum Arthropoda

  • This phylum is further classified into five subphyla: Trilobitomorpha (trilobites, all extinct), Hexapoda (insects and relatives), Myriapoda (millipedes, centipedes, and relatives), Crustaceans (crabs, lobsters, crayfish, isopods, barnacles, and some zooplankton), and Chelicerata (horseshoe crabs, arachnids, scorpions, and daddy longlegs).