Voorbeelden van zooplankton

• The role of zooplankton in the transmission of helminth parasites to fish.

• The habitat is rich in fauna including a range of zooplankton, fish and birds.

• As a consequence of the gradient in environmental conditions, the distribution of zooplankton and definitive hosts is also influenced.

• Initially, the constraints of small jaw size in larval fish necessitate feeding on zooplankton, which are difficult to detect visually.

• In tropical waters, zooplankton are a dominant trophic link to pelagic fish.

• This decline was attributed to climatic changes that affected the entire food chain from zooplankton to fish, sea birds and marine mammals.

• This pattern also determines the distribution of zooplankton, with a characteristic specific composition in different water masses.

• It is not immediately clear why this should be so, but it may relate to abundance of zooplankton.

• In addition, mysids can migrate into the zooplankton.

• They were part of a complex trophic web of the time including primary producers (phytoplankton) and primary to tertiary consumers (zooplankton and filterfeeders, suspension and deposit feeders, and invertebrate predators).

• We were unable to count particles on the 250 and 125 m sieves owing to the abundance of zooplankton faecal pellets that obscured the charcoal.

• Cladocerans amounted to maximum 5% of the zooplankton numbers, and rotifers were always at relative abundances lower than 1%, possibly due to inadequate mesh size to sample all rotifer species.

• Crustacean zooplankton food web structure in lakes of varying acidity.

• In weak ones, anchoveta and zooplankton both consume phytoplankton and are in turn ingested by carnivores.

• Zooplankton was sampled in the coastal and in the pelagic zone (c. 2.5 km offshore).