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/ˌfaɪtoʊˈpɫæŋtən/
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[ UK /fˈaɪtəplˌæŋktən/ ]
[ UK /fˈaɪtəplˌæŋktən/ ]
NOUN
- photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae
How To Use phytoplankton In A Sentence
- Phytoplankton are critical for feeding larval fish.
- Discrimination technology for bacillariophyta and pyrrophyta was established by chlorophyll fluorescence excitation spectra of phytoplankton.
- Oil and gas was formed around 100 million years ago when tiny marine plants and animals called phytoplankton and zooplankton floated on the sea's surface.
- The fourth chapter in Section III examines phytoplankton and bacterioplankton production variations and concludes with a look at the trophic levels in the lake. Lake Chapala: a review of "The Lerma-Lake Chapala watershed: evaluation and management"
- Actually, most people don't know that this tiny plant life called phytoplankton is so small -- as small as bacteria -- that more than one trillion of them exist in a single drop of water. Alexia Parks: Your Life Depends Upon This Tiny Plant
- Since silica can only limit diatoms, other forms of phytoplankton might dominate if nitrogen is regenerated more rapidly.
- Dynamics of phytoplankton succession coupled to species diversity as a system-level tool for study of Microcystis population dynamics in eutrophic lakes
- Phytoplankton biomass can become extremely high during these spring blooms, which is why overall phytoplankton biomass is very high in temperate latitiudes. Lorenz et al 2006: "Tropical Cooling" « Climate Audit
- Slide 3: We have put our knowledge about algal ecophysiology to good use in the following major field studies: •Port Phillip Bay Environmental Study - the Beardall lab was responsible for studies on •phytoplankton distributions and productivity (R. Royle and Simon Roberts); •benthic microalgal distributions and productivity (B. Light, PhD project) and Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- The nutrients trigger blooms of microscopic algae known as phytoplankton.