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phytoplankton

[ US /ˌfaɪtoʊˈpɫæŋtən/ ]
[ UK /fˈa‍ɪtəplˌæŋktən/ ]
NOUN
  1. photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae

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  • 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.
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