Zooplankton are a critical component of marine ecosystems. They link phytoplankton production to higher levels of the marine food chain (which the scientists call trophic levels), including ...

Climate change-driven changes in the make-up of phytoplankton populations will drive a shift in the zooplankton that feed on them — away from omnivorous krill and copepods towards more gelatinous and ...

Odds are you aren't too familiar with the group of animals called zooplankton, which include copepods, krill and salps. On land, they're most commonly used as fish food. Underwater, however, they've ...

Freshwater ecosystems are impacted by human activities, including climate change, pollution and invasive species. We are researchers at the Université du Québec à Montréal and part of the Groupe de ...

Laboratory experiments with flavored and untreated polystyrene spheres revealed major differences in taste discrimination among diverse taxa of freshwater zooplankton. Copepods showed the strongest ...

Researchers have analyzed the impact of diatom algae in the development of Oikopleura dioica, a type of marine zooplankton invertebrate which plays an important role in the global dynamics of the ...

Marine zooplankton are tiny animals, roughly the size of insects you might see on a summer day, that drift with ocean currents. Many of them are lovely, but except for scientists who study them, few ...