Perhaps the Most Important Biological Aspect of Planet Earth!
Three-quarters of Planet Earth are covered with water--namely, the Oceans, and these waters are inhabited by the many times microscopic plant and animal life (Plankton) that contributes not only to much of the oxygen in our atmosphere but also provides much of the basis of the food chain for all other life on the planet.
Even the great whales--the blue whale, the gray whale, the humpback whale, and other baleen whales--eat krill, the planktonic shrimp-like creatures that inhabit much of the ocean.
Contents at a Glance
- Plankton Under a Microscope - University of Guam Marine Laboratory
- Plankton Goodies Can Be Decorative or Make a Statement!
- Plankton and Krill Make the Ocean Blue?
Plankton Under a Microscope - University of Guam Marine Laboratory
Plankton Goodies Can Be Decorative or Make a Statement!
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Plankton and Krill Make the Ocean Blue?
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Zooplankton (Animal Plankton) and Phytoplankton (Plant Plankton) ...
Plankton in the oceans (and fresh-water, too!) differs depending on where you are. In the open ocean, sometimes there isn't much plankton -- not much life there, so the waters resemble a watery version of a desert. Along coastal areas and in the Artic and Antarctic, there exists ocean currents called "upwellings" that bring nutrient-rich waters from the ocean floor up to the surface. This nutrient-rich water provides food for the phytoplankton and which also provides food for the zooplankton. This planktonic life is fed on by the baleen whales (which use their baleen--the strainer-like structures in their mouths--to strain out the organisms that they feed on).
Some of the plankton is visible to human eyes as small shrimps, fish larvae, and small jellyfish. Other varieties of plankton include egg cases of various kinds of fish, juvenile squid, tunicates, radiolarians, and foraminifera.
Fish Eating Plankton
fish eating plankton
fish coming to the surface to eat plankton at night. orange dots are crab larvae. off the shore of Christmas Island, central Pacific. 2 degrees N
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