plankton

Converse of object

• eat: Some of the animals that eat the plant plankton are also plankton.
• catch: They have very long flexible baleen plates that catch the tiny plankton in the hairs.
• collect: He modified the design for use in the North Sea and started collecting plankton in the 1930s.
• investigate: The ecological relations between the herring and the plankton investigated with the Plankton Indicator.
• sample: Other methods of sampling plankton are being developed which include optical plankton counters, video and acoustic systems.

Preposition: in

water: The mussels here have an excellent flavor due to the high concentration of plankton in the bay water.

Adjective modifier

• oceanic: Simo, R. Production of atmospheric sulfur by oceanic plankton: biogeochemical, ecological and evolutionary links.
• microscopic: Using the latest photographic technology, these images capture in close up microscopic plankton living deep beneath the sea.
• marine: In the lab, the team use a common marine plankton infected with a virus to explore the processes in more detail.
• tiny: In Thailand they are started off with tiny red plankton.
• other: After hatching the larvae are carried by the currents and join other plankton.

Modifies a noun

• bloom: In the North Sea every year several plankton blooms occur.
• atlas: Appendix in A plankton atlas of the north Atlantic and North Sea.
• recorder: We have a plankton recorder on board, which will show us whether this theory is correct.
• sampler: Plankton sampler from Fred Schueler: F.S. Russell correspondence.
• abundance: Figure 2. Atmospheric carbon dioxide mirrors plankton abundance over much shorter timescale of hours in the Atlantic.
• ecology: An overview of plankton ecology in the North Sea.

Noun used with modifier

• ocean: In the oceans plankton soak up carbon dioxide and sink to the bottom.
• plant: Some of the animals that eat the plant plankton are also plankton.
• spring: Due to the death and decay of the spring plankton, fresh nutrients become available in the autumn.