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 ...

54, No. 6, Nov., 2009 Effects of Phytoplankton Community on Pr... We recorded vertical profiles of size distributions of large particles (>100 μm) to a 1000-m depth in the Atlantic, Indian, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Marine biologists today note, almost everywhere, a decline in plankton biodiversity,” Mollo says in another interview. “When ...

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 team looked at the size structure of plankton directly. The relative abundance of small and large organisms provides a handy, direct measure of how efficiently the food web transmits energy from ...