Zooplankton, the Glossary
Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from), having to consume other organisms to thrive.[1]
Table of Contents
221 relations: Acantharea, Agglutination (biology), Algae, Algal bloom, Ammonia tepida, Ammonium, Amoeba, Amphipoda, Animal, Animal locomotion, Annelid, Arcella, Arthropod, Autotroph, Bacterioplankton, Barnacle, Benthos, Bergmann's rule, Biological carbon fixation, Biological life cycle, Biological pump, Biological thermodynamics, Bioluminescence, Biomagnification, Biomass (ecology), Blepharisma japonicum, Body plan, Branchiopoda, Cannibalism, Carbon cycle, Carbon dioxide, Cell wall, Census of Marine Zooplankton, Cephalopod, Chaetognatha, Chaos (genus), Chemotroph, Chiton, Chlorophyll, Chlorophyll a, Chloroplast, Cholera, Chordate, Ciliate, Cnidaria, Copepod, Coral reef, Crab, Crustacean, Crustacean larva, ... Expand index (171 more) »
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Acantharea
The Acantharea (Acantharia) are a group of radiolarian protozoa, distinguished mainly by their strontium sulfate skeletons.
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Agglutination (biology)
Agglutination is the clumping of particles.
See Zooplankton and Agglutination (biology)
Algae
Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.
Algal bloom
An algal bloom or algae bloom is a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in freshwater or marine water systems. Zooplankton and algal bloom are biological oceanography.
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Ammonia tepida
Ammonia tepida is a benthic foraminifer living in the sediment of brackish waters.
See Zooplankton and Ammonia tepida
Ammonium
Ammonium is a modified form of ammonia that has an extra hydrogen atom.
Amoeba
An amoeba (less commonly spelled ameba or amœba;: amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae)), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods.
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies.
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Animal locomotion
In ethology, animal locomotion is any of a variety of methods that animals use to move from one place to another.
See Zooplankton and Animal locomotion
Annelid
The annelids (Annelida, from Latin anellus, "little ring"), also known as the segmented worms, are a large phylum, with over 22,000 extant species including ragworms, earthworms, and leeches.
Arcella
Arcella is a genus of testate amoebae in the order Arcellinida, usually found in freshwaters and mosses, and rarely in soils.
Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
Autotroph
An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds, which can be used by other organisms.
Bacterioplankton
Bacterioplankton refers to the bacterial component of the plankton that drifts in the water column. Zooplankton and Bacterioplankton are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Barnacle
Barnacles are arthropods of the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea.
Benthos
Benthos, also known as benthon, is the community of organisms that live on, in, or near the bottom of a sea, river, lake, or stream, also known as the benthic zone. Zooplankton and benthos are Oceanographical terminology.
Bergmann's rule
Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographical rule that states that, within a broadly distributed taxonomic clade, populations and species of larger size are found in colder environments, while populations and species of smaller size are found in warmer regions.
See Zooplankton and Bergmann's rule
Biological carbon fixation
Biological carbon fixation, or сarbon assimilation, is the process by which living organisms convert inorganic carbon (particularly carbon dioxide) to organic compounds.
See Zooplankton and Biological carbon fixation
Biological life cycle
In biology, a biological life cycle (or just life cycle when the biological context is clear) is a series of stages of the life of an organism, that begins as a zygote, often in an egg, and concludes as an adult that reproduces, producing an offspring in the form of a new zygote which then itself goes through the same series of stages, the process repeating in a cyclic fashion.
See Zooplankton and Biological life cycle
Biological pump
The biological pump (or ocean carbon biological pump or marine biological carbon pump) is the ocean's biologically driven sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere and land runoff to the ocean interior and seafloor sediments. Zooplankton and biological pump are biological oceanography.
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Biological thermodynamics
Biological thermodynamics (Thermodynamics of biological systems) is a science that explains the nature and general laws of thermodynamic processes occurring in living organisms as nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems that convert the energy of the Sun and food into other types of energy.
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Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms.
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Biomagnification
Biomagnification, also known as bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increase in concentration of a substance, e.g a pesticide, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels in a food chain.
See Zooplankton and Biomagnification
Biomass (ecology)
Biomass is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time.
See Zooplankton and Biomass (ecology)
Blepharisma japonicum
Blepharisma japonicum is a species of protozoan that can be found either in water or soil in Japan.
See Zooplankton and Blepharisma japonicum
Body plan
A body plan, Bauplan, or ground plan is a set of morphological features common to many members of a phylum of animals.
Branchiopoda
Branchiopoda is a class of crustaceans.
See Zooplankton and Branchiopoda
Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.
See Zooplankton and Cannibalism
Carbon cycle
The carbon cycle is that part of the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of Earth.
See Zooplankton and Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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Cell wall
A cell wall is a structural layer that surrounds some cell types, found immediately outside the cell membrane.
Census of Marine Zooplankton
The Census of Marine Zooplankton is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that has aimed to produce a global assessment of the species diversity, biomass, biogeographic distribution, and genetic diversity of more than 7,000 described species of zooplankton that drift the ocean currents throughout their lives.
See Zooplankton and Census of Marine Zooplankton
Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδες,; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus.
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Chaetognatha
The Chaetognatha or chaetognaths (meaning bristle-jaws) are a phylum of predatory marine worms that are a major component of plankton worldwide. Zooplankton and chaetognatha are Planktology.
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Chaos (genus)
Chaos is a genus of single-celled amoeboid organisms in the family Amoebidae.
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Chemotroph
A chemotroph Greek words “chemo” (meaning chemical) and “troph” (meaning nourishment) is an organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. Zooplankton and chemotroph are Planktology.
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Chiton
Chitons are marine molluscs of varying size in the class Polyplacophora, formerly known as Amphineura.
Chlorophyll
Chlorophyll is any of several related green pigments found in cyanobacteria and in the chloroplasts of algae and plants.
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Chlorophyll a
Chlorophyll a is a specific form of chlorophyll used in oxygenic photosynthesis. It absorbs most energy from wavelengths of violet-blue and orange-red light, and it is a poor absorber of green and near-green portions of the spectrum. Chlorophyll does not reflect light but chlorophyll-containing tissues appear green because green light is diffusively reflected by structures like cell walls.
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Chloroplast
A chloroplast is a type of membrane-bound organelle known as a plastid that conducts photosynthesis mostly in plant and algal cells.
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Cholera
Cholera is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae.
Chordate
A chordate is a deuterostomic animal belonging to the phylum Chordata. All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa.
Ciliate
The ciliates are a group of alveolates characterized by the presence of hair-like organelles called cilia, which are identical in structure to eukaryotic flagella, but are in general shorter and present in much larger numbers, with a different undulating pattern than flagella.
Cnidaria
Cnidaria is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in fresh water and marine environments (predominantly the latter), including jellyfish, hydroids, sea anemones, corals and some of the smallest marine parasites. Zooplankton and Cnidaria are aquatic animals.
Copepod
Copepods (meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.
Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Zooplankton and coral reef are Oceanographical terminology.
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Crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).
Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
See Zooplankton and Crustacean
Crustacean larva
Crustaceans may pass through a number of larval and immature stages between hatching from their eggs and reaching their adult form.
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Ctenophora
Ctenophora (ctenophore) comprise a phylum of marine invertebrates, commonly known as comb jellies, that inhabit sea waters worldwide.
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Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also called Cyanobacteriota or Cyanophyta, are a phylum of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis.
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Cyphoderia
Cyphoderia is a genus of marine cercozoa.
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Deep carbon cycle
The deep carbon cycle (or slow carbon cycle) is geochemical cycle (movement) of carbon through the Earth's mantle and core.
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Deep sea
The deep sea is broadly defined as the ocean depth where light begins to fade, at an approximate depth of or the point of transition from continental shelves to continental slopes. Zooplankton and deep sea are Oceanographical terminology.
Detritivore
Detritivores (also known as detrivores, detritophages, detritus feeders or detritus eaters) are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus (decomposing plant and animal parts as well as feces).
See Zooplankton and Detritivore
Detritus
In biology, detritus is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material.
Diatom
A diatom (Neo-Latin diatoma) is any member of a large group comprising several genera of algae, specifically microalgae, found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.
Diel vertical migration
Diel vertical migration (DVM), also known as diurnal vertical migration, is a pattern of movement used by some organisms, such as copepods, living in the ocean and in lakes. Zooplankton and Diel vertical migration are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Dinoflagellate
The dinoflagellates are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered protists.
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Dinophysis
Dinophysis is a genus of dinoflagellatesAlgaeBase: common in tropical, temperate, coastal and oceanic waters.
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Dinophysis acuminata
Dinophysis acuminata is a marine plankton species of dinoflagellates that is found in coastal waters of the north Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Dinophysis acuta
Dinophysis acuta is a species of flagellated planktons belonging to the genus Dinophysis.
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Diplostraca
The Diplostraca or Cladocera, commonly known as water fleas, is a superorder of small, mostly freshwater crustaceans, most of which feed on microscopic chunks of organic matter, though some forms are predatory.
See Zooplankton and Diplostraca
Dissolved organic carbon
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is the fraction of organic carbon operationally defined as that which can pass through a filter with a pore size typically between 0.22 and 0.7 micrometers.
See Zooplankton and Dissolved organic carbon
DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
Downwelling
Downwelling is the downward movement of a fluid parcel and its properties (e.g., salinity, temperature, pH) within a larger fluid.
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Eating
Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food.
Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
Ecosystem model
An ecosystem model is an abstract, usually mathematical, representation of an ecological system (ranging in scale from an individual population, to an ecological community, or even an entire biome), which is studied to better understand the real system.
See Zooplankton and Ecosystem model
Ectotherm
An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός "outside" and θερμός "heat"), more commonly referred to as a "cold-blooded animal", is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature.
Egyptian pyramids
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient masonry structures located in Egypt.
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Endosymbiont
An endosymbiont or endobiont is an organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist.
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Euglena
Euglena is a genus of single cell flagellate eukaryotes.
Eukaryote
The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.
Excavata
Excavata is an extensive and diverse but paraphyletic group of unicellular Eukaryota.
Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
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Feces
Feces (or faeces;: faex) are the solid or semi-solid remains of food that was not digested in the small intestine, and has been broken down by bacteria in the large intestine.
Filter feeder
Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.
See Zooplankton and Filter feeder
Flagellate
A flagellate is a cell or organism with one or more whip-like appendages called flagella.
See Zooplankton and Flagellate
Food web
A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
Foraminifera
Foraminifera (Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of Rhizarian protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials.
See Zooplankton and Foraminifera
Gelatinous zooplankton
Gelatinous zooplankton are fragile animals that live in the water column in the ocean. Zooplankton and Gelatinous zooplankton are biological oceanography and Planktology.
See Zooplankton and Gelatinous zooplankton
Glaucus atlanticus
Glaucus atlanticus (common names include the blue sea dragon, sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, dragon slug, blue dragon, blue sea slug, and blue ocean slug) is a species of sea slug in the family Glaucidae.
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Golden algae
The Chrysophyceae, usually called chrysophytes, chrysomonads, golden-brown algae or golden algae, are a large group of algae, found mostly in freshwater.
See Zooplankton and Golden algae
Graeme Hays
Graeme C. Hays (born 1966) is a British and Australian marine ecologist known for his work with sea turtles and plankton.
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Green algae
The green algae (green alga) are a group of chlorophyll-containing autotrophic eukaryotes consisting of the phylum Prasinodermophyta and its unnamed sister group that contains the Chlorophyta and Charophyta/Streptophyta.
See Zooplankton and Green algae
Gymnodinium
Gymnodinium is a genus of dinoflagellates, a type of marine and freshwater plankton.
See Zooplankton and Gymnodinium
Harmful algal bloom
A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, mechanical damage to other organisms, or by other means. Zooplankton and harmful algal bloom are biological oceanography.
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Heterotroph
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.
See Zooplankton and Heterotroph
High-nutrient, low-chlorophyll regions
High-nutrient, low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions are regions of the ocean where the abundance of phytoplankton is low and fairly constant despite the availability of macronutrients. Zooplankton and High-nutrient, low-chlorophyll regions are Planktology.
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Holoplankton
Holoplankton are organisms that are planktic (they live in the water column and cannot swim against a current) for their entire life cycle. Zooplankton and Holoplankton are Planktology.
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Hydrobiologia
Hydrobiologia, The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences, is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing 21 issues per year, for a total of well over 4000 pages per year.
See Zooplankton and Hydrobiologia
Ichthyoplankton
Ichthyoplankton (from Greek: ἰχθύς,, "fish"; and πλαγκτός,, "drifter") are the eggs and larvae of fish. Zooplankton and Ichthyoplankton are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Infection
An infection is the invasion of tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce.
Intestacy
Intestacy is the condition of the estate of a person who dies without having in force a valid will or other binding declaration.
Iron fertilization
Iron fertilization is the intentional introduction of iron-containing compounds (like iron sulfate) to iron-poor areas of the ocean surface to stimulate phytoplankton production.
See Zooplankton and Iron fertilization
Isopoda
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans.
Jelly-falls
Jelly-falls are marine carbon cycling events whereby gelatinous zooplankton, primarily cnidarians, sink to the seafloor and enhance carbon and nitrogen fluxes via rapidly sinking particulate organic matter. Zooplankton and Jelly-falls are biological oceanography.
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Jellyfish
Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.
Juvenile fish
Fish go through various life stages between fertilization and adulthood.
See Zooplankton and Juvenile fish
Karenia brevis
Karenia brevis is a microscopic, single-celled, photosynthetic organism in the genus Karenia.
See Zooplankton and Karenia brevis
Kerguelen Plateau
The Kerguelen Plateau, also known as the Kerguelen–Heard Plateau, is an oceanic plateau and large igneous province (LIP) located on the Antarctic Plate, in the southern Indian Ocean.
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Kleptoplasty
Kleptoplasty or kleptoplastidy is a process in symbiotic relationships whereby plastids, notably chloroplasts from algae, are sequestered by the host.
See Zooplankton and Kleptoplasty
Krill
Krill (Euphausiids), (krill) are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, found in all the world's oceans.
Lake
A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.
Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
Leatherback sea turtle
The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), sometimes called the lute turtle, leathery turtle or simply the luth, is the largest of all living turtles and the heaviest non-crocodilian reptile, reaching lengths of up to and weights of.
See Zooplankton and Leatherback sea turtle
Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
Lithotroph
Lithotrophs are a diverse group of organisms using an inorganic substrate (usually of mineral origin) to obtain reducing equivalents for use in biosynthesis (e.g., carbon dioxide fixation) or energy conservation (i.e., ATP production) via aerobic or anaerobic respiration.
See Zooplankton and Lithotroph
Macromolecule
A macromolecule is a very large molecule important to biological processes, such as a protein or nucleic acid.
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Macroscopic scale
The macroscopic scale is the length scale on which objects or phenomena are large enough to be visible with the naked eye, without magnifying optical instruments.
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Malacostraca
Malacostraca (from Neo-Latin) is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans just behind hexapods, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders.
See Zooplankton and Malacostraca
Marine biogeochemical cycles
Marine biogeochemical cycles are biogeochemical cycles that occur within marine environments, that is, in the saltwater of seas or oceans or the brackish water of coastal estuaries.
See Zooplankton and Marine biogeochemical cycles
Marine food web
A marine food web is a food web of marine life.
See Zooplankton and Marine food web
Marine primary production
Marine primary production is the chemical synthesis in the ocean of organic compounds from atmospheric or dissolved carbon dioxide. Zooplankton and Marine primary production are biological oceanography.
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Marine protists
Marine protists are defined by their habitat as protists that live in marine environments, that is, in the saltwater of seas or oceans or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. Zooplankton and marine protists are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Marine sediment
Marine sediment, or ocean sediment, or seafloor sediment, are deposits of insoluble particles that have accumulated on the seafloor.
See Zooplankton and Marine sediment
Marine snow
In the deep ocean, marine snow (also known as "ocean dandruff") is a continuous shower of mostly organic detritus falling from the upper layers of the water column. Zooplankton and marine snow are biological oceanography and Oceanographical terminology.
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Merck Veterinary Manual
The Merck Veterinary Manual is a reference manual of animal health care.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Meroplankton
Meroplankton are a wide variety of aquatic organisms which have both planktonic and benthic stages in their life cycles. Zooplankton and Meroplankton are Oceanographical terminology and Planktology.
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Mesodinium rubrum
Mesodinium rubrum (or Myrionecta rubra) is a species of ciliates.
See Zooplankton and Mesodinium rubrum
Mesopelagic zone
The mesopelagic zone (Greek μέσον, middle), also known as the middle pelagic or twilight zone, is the part of the pelagic zone that lies between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones.
See Zooplankton and Mesopelagic zone
Microalgae
Microalgae or microphytes are microscopic algae invisible to the naked eye. Zooplankton and Microalgae are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Microbial loop
The microbial loop describes a trophic pathway where, in aquatic systems, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is returned to higher trophic levels via its incorporation into bacterial biomass, and then coupled with the classic food chain formed by phytoplankton-zooplankton-nekton.
See Zooplankton and Microbial loop
Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
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Microscopic scale
The microscopic scale is the scale of objects and events smaller than those that can easily be seen by the naked eye, requiring a lens or microscope to see them clearly.
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Mixotroph
A mixotroph is an organism that can use a mix of different sources of energy and carbon, instead of having a single trophic mode on the continuum from complete autotrophy at one end to heterotrophy at the other.
Mixotrophic dinoflagellate
Dinoflagellates are eukaryotic plankton, existing in marine and freshwater environments.
See Zooplankton and Mixotrophic dinoflagellate
Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
Morphology (biology)
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
See Zooplankton and Morphology (biology)
Motility
Motility is the ability of an organism to move independently, using metabolic energy.
Mysida
Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida.
Naked eye
Naked eye, also called bare eye or unaided eye, is the practice of engaging in visual perception unaided by a magnifying, light-collecting optical instrument, such as a telescope or microscope, or eye protection.
Narcomedusae
Narcomedusae is an order of hydrozoans in the subclass Trachylinae.
See Zooplankton and Narcomedusae
Nassellaria
Nassellaria is an order of Rhizaria belonging to the class Radiolaria.
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Natural reservoir
In infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, a natural reservoir, also known as a disease reservoir or a reservoir of infection, is the population of organisms or the specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for its survival.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Nekton
Nekton or necton (from the) refers to aquatic organisms that can actively and persistently propel themselves (i.e. swim) through a water column. Zooplankton and Nekton are Oceanographical terminology.
Noctiluca scintillans
Noctiluca scintillans is a marine species of dinoflagellate that can exist in a green or red form, depending on the pigmentation in its vacuoles.
See Zooplankton and Noctiluca scintillans
Nummulite
A nummulite is a large lenticular fossil, characterised by its numerous coils, subdivided by septa into chambers.
Nutrient
A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.
Ocean
The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx.
Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's ocean. Zooplankton and ocean acidification are biological oceanography and Oceanographical terminology.
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Ocean sunfish
The ocean sunfish or common mola (Mola mola) is one of the largest bony fish in the world.
See Zooplankton and Ocean sunfish
Octopus
An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
Oligotrich
The oligotrichs are a group of ciliates, included among the spirotrichs.
See Zooplankton and Oligotrich
Oligotroph
An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients.
See Zooplankton and Oligotroph
Oodinium
Oodinium is a genus of parasitic dinoflagellates.
Organism
An organism is defined in a medical dictionary as any living thing that functions as an individual.
Organotroph
An organotroph is an organism that obtains hydrogen or electrons from organic substrates.
See Zooplankton and Organotroph
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae or Ostraciontidae is a family of squared, bony fish belonging to the order Tetraodontiformes, closely related to the pufferfishes and filefishes.
See Zooplankton and Ostraciidae
Ostracod
Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
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Phaeocystis
Phaeocystis is a genus of algae belonging to the Prymnesiophyte class and to the larger division of Haptophyta.
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Phagocytosis
Phagocytosis is the process by which a cell uses its plasma membrane to engulf a large particle (≥ 0.5 μm), giving rise to an internal compartment called the phagosome.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Photic zone
The photic zone (or euphotic zone, epipelagic zone, or sunlight zone) is the uppermost layer of a body of water that receives sunlight, allowing phytoplankton to perform photosynthesis. Zooplankton and photic zone are Oceanographical terminology.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a system of biological processes by which photosynthetic organisms, such as most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria, convert light energy, typically from sunlight, into the chemical energy necessary to fuel their metabolism.
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Phototroph
Phototrophs are organisms that carry out photon capture to produce complex organic compounds (e.g. carbohydrates) and acquire energy.
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Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
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Physonectae
Physonectae is a suborder of siphonophores.
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Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems. Zooplankton and Phytoplankton are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Picoplankton
Picoplankton is the fraction of plankton composed by cells between 0.2 and 2 μm that can be either prokaryotic and eukaryotic phototrophs and heterotrophs. Zooplankton and Picoplankton are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Plankton
Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that drift in water (or air) but are unable to actively propel themselves against currents (or wind). Zooplankton and Plankton are biological oceanography, Oceanographical terminology and Planktology.
Plant
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic.
Pollutant
A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of a resource.
Polychaete
Polychaeta is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes.
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Polycystine
The polycystines are a group of radiolarians.
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Polymorphism (biology)
In biology, polymorphism is the occurrence of two or more clearly different morphs or forms, also referred to as alternative phenotypes, in the population of a species.
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Portuguese man o' war
The Portuguese war (Physalia physalis), also known as the man-of-war or bluebottle, is a marine hydrozoan found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Predatory dinoflagellate
Predatory dinoflagellates are predatory heterotrophic or mixotrophic alveolates that derive some or most of their nutrients from digesting other organisms.
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Primary nutritional groups
Primary nutritional groups are groups of organisms, divided in relation to the nutrition mode according to the sources of energy and carbon, needed for living, growth and reproduction.
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Primary production
In ecology, primary production is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide.
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Prokaryote
A prokaryote (less commonly spelled procaryote) is a single-cell organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.
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Protist
A protist or protoctist is any eukaryotic organism that is not an animal, land plant, or fungus.
Protozoa
Protozoa (protozoan or protozoon; alternative plural: protozoans) are a polyphyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes, either free-living or parasitic, that feed on organic matter such as other microorganisms or organic debris.
Pteropoda
Pteropoda (common name pteropods, from the Greek meaning "wing-foot") are specialized free-swimming pelagic sea snails and sea slugs, marine opisthobranch gastropods.
Pyrosome
Pyrosomes, genus Pyrosoma, are free-floating colonial tunicates that usually live in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas, although some may be found at greater depths.
Radiolaria
The Radiolaria, also called Radiozoa, are protozoa of diameter 0.1–0.2 mm that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into the inner and outer portions of endoplasm and ectoplasm.
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Red algae
Red algae, or Rhodophyta, make up one of the oldest groups of eukaryotic algae.
Rhizaria
The Rhizaria are a diverse and species-rich supergroup of mostly unicellular eukaryotes.
River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
Roe
Roe, or hard roe, is the fully ripe internal egg masses in the ovaries, or the released external egg masses, of fish and certain marine animals such as shrimp, scallop, sea urchins and squid.
Salp
A salp (plural salps, also known colloquially as “sea grape”) or salpa (plural salpae or salpas) is a barrel-shaped, planktonic tunicate in the family Salpidae.
Sea
A sea is a large body of salty water.
Sea cucumber
Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea. They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad.
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Sessility (motility)
Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion.
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Siphonophorae
Siphonophorae (from Greek siphōn 'tube' + pherein 'to bear') is an order within Hydrozoa, which is a class of marine organisms within the phylum Cnidaria.
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Southern Ocean
The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the world ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica.
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Species richness
Species richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region.
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Spring bloom
The spring bloom is a strong increase in phytoplankton abundance (i.e. stock) that typically occurs in the early spring and lasts until late spring or early summer. Zooplankton and spring bloom are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Squid
A squid (squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida.
Strontium sulfate
Strontium sulfate (SrSO4) is the sulfate salt of strontium.
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Stylonychia
Stylonychia is a genus of ciliates, in the subclass Hypotrichia.
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Sulfur cycle
The important sulfur cycle is a biogeochemical cycle in which the sulfur moves between rocks, waterways and living systems.
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Sunlight
Sunlight is a portion of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun, in particular infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light.
Swordfish
The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.
Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
Test (biology)
In biology, a test is the hard shell of some spherical marine animals and protists, notably sea urchins and microorganisms such as testate foraminiferans, radiolarians, and testate amoebae.
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Testate amoebae
Testate amoebae (formerly thecamoebians, Testacea or Thecamoeba) are a polyphyletic group of unicellular amoeboid protists, which differ from naked amoebae in the presence of a test that partially encloses the cell, with an aperture from which the pseudopodia emerge, that provides the amoeba with shelter from predators and environmental conditions.
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Tetrapturus
Tetrapturus is a genus of marlins commonly called spearfish, found in tropical and subtropical oceans throughout the world.
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Thin layers (oceanography)
Thin layers are concentrated aggregations of phytoplankton and zooplankton in coastal and offshore waters that are vertically compressed to thicknesses ranging from several centimeters up to a few meters and are horizontally extensive, sometimes for kilometers. Zooplankton and thin layers (oceanography) are biological oceanography and Planktology.
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Tintinnid
Tintinnids are ciliates of the choreotrich order Tintinnida, distinguished by vase-shaped shells, the name deriving from a Latin source meaning a small tinkling bell, that are called loricae, which are mostly protein but may incorporate minute pieces of minerals.
Total organic carbon
Total organic carbon (TOC) is an analytical parameter representing the concentration of organic carbon in a sample.
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Tripos (dinoflagellate)
Tripos is a genus of marine dinoflagellates in the family Ceratiaceae.
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Trophic level
The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web.
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Tuna
A tuna (tunas or tuna) is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family.
Tunicate
A tunicate is an exclusively marine invertebrate animal, a member of the subphylum Tunicata. This grouping is part of the Chordata, a phylum which includes all animals with dorsal nerve cords and notochords (including vertebrates).
University College London
University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.
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University of Oldenburg
The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg) is a university located in Oldenburg, Germany.
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Upwelling
Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface.
Velvet (fish disease)
Velvet disease (also called gold-dust, rust and coral disease) is a fish disease caused by dinoflagellate parasites of the genera Amyloodinium in marine fish, and Oodinium in freshwater fish.
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Vibrio cholerae
Vibrio cholerae is a species of Gram-negative, facultative anaerobe and comma-shaped bacteria.
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Zoochlorella
Zoochlorella (zoochlorellae) is a coloquial term for any green algae that lives symbiotically within the body of an aquatic invertebrate animal or a protozoan.
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Zooflagellate
In some older systems of classification, Zoomastigophora is a phylum (more commonly known as zooflagellates) within the kingdom Protista.
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Zooplankton
Zooplankton are the animal (or heterotrophic) component of the planktonic community (the "zoo-" prefix comes from), having to consume other organisms to thrive. Zooplankton and Zooplankton are aquatic animals, biological oceanography, Oceanographical terminology and Planktology.
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See also
Aquatic animals
- Anfesta
- Aquatic animal
- Aquatic locomotion
- Arboreomorph
- Armillifera
- Attenborites
- Beltanelliformis
- Bilinichnus
- Bottom feeder
- Clean-up crew
- Cnidaria
- Communication in aquatic animals
- Freshwater animals
- Gastreochrea
- Hylaecullulus
- Marine animals
- Mattheva
- Nailiana
- Petalostoma
- Podolimirus
- Pseudorhizostomites
- Rheophile
- Sponge
- Tirasiana
- Veprina
- Zolotytsia
- Zooplankton
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton
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