The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Limnology and Oceanography Vol. 54, No. 6, Nov., 2009 Effects of Phytoplankton Community on Pr... We recorded vertical profiles of size distributions of ...

Plankton are also threatened by microplastics—billions of tiny bits of plastic, less than five millimeters in size, which have spread into virtually every part of the ocean, from the deepest sea ...

As plankton is a collection of different types of organisms it also varies both in appearance and size. They can be microscopic and as small as 2 micrometres. That means that it’s impossible to ...

Jellyfish, my favorite type of zooplankton, are among the biggest plankton. Despite their large size (up to 120 meters long in the case of the Lion's Mane jellyfish), jellyfish are still ...

In a study titled "Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size," an international team of researchers has discovered a negative relationship between the dispersal scales of various ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 61, No. 4 (2016), pp. 1232-1244 (13 pages) Temperature strongly affects phytoplankton growth rates, but its effect on communities and ecosystem processes is debated.

The new study provides a fresh, independent, and relatively simple approach, based on field data rather than computer simulations. The team looked at the size structure of plankton directly. The ...