zooplankton

Converse of object

• collect: These are taken from open-sea zooplankton collected by means of merchant ship continuous plankton recorders.
• call: These are fed upon by the tiny animals called zooplankton.

Preposition: as

• indicator: To review the use of zooplankton as indicators of water mass movement; global climate change and pollution.

Adjective modifier

• other: The decapods and other zooplankton in the samples were dried and weighed.
• marine: A large amount of the fixed carbon is used by marine zooplankton to make calcium carbonate shells.
• crustacean: Factors influencing the spatial distribution of crustacean zooplankton and pelagic fish in Windermere.
• large: The size structure appeared to be more closely related to the productivity of the area, with high zooplankton biomass associated with larger zooplankton.
• tiny: The children are experts at isolating the tiny zooplankton with a pipette and we see some great examples of copepods under the microscope.
• herbivorous: Patterns of annual variation in the herbivorous zooplankton were not related to those in the phytoplankton.

Modifies a noun

• taxon: The number of zooplankton taxa in the autumn was significantly higher than in other years.
• biomass: Zooplankton biomass models: their implications for the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey.
• abundance: Neural networks may be used to predict zooplankton abundance from a few readily available parameters.
• dynamics: This suggests that stochastic events can influence zooplankton dynamics over very large areas.
• specie: The association with the north wall series is shown to be widespread across zooplankton species in the North Sea.
• population: Changes in zooplankton populations in a wetland ecosystem due to drought.

Noun used with modifier

• sample: How well does the Continuous Plankton Recorder ( CPR ) sample zooplankton?
• surface: Guide to the coastal and surface zooplankton of the south-western Indian Ocean.
• freshwater: They are the most numerous organisms in freshwater zooplankton.

Preposition: in

• summer: The spring outburst of phytoplankton is grazed down by zooplankton in the summer and occurs again as a second maximum in the autumn.

Converse of subject

• eat: You can see that phytoplankton form the basis of the chain, which in turn are eaten by zooplankton.