How to Use copepod in a Sentence

copepod

noun

• The copepods that live off the coast of Oregon are good sources of fat in the food web.
  — Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• In the second room, Meah’s copepod hangs against the wall.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• That has pushed northward their favourite food, copepods, a kind of small crustacean.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Part of this is due to tiny crustaceans called copepods, a fatty food source for many of the salmon’s prey, such as herring.
  — Rocky Barker, idahostatesman, 8 July 2017
• Warm waters brought less nutrient-rich copepods, tiny crustaceans at the base of the food chain.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
• But as the distribution of copepods, the zooplankton that are the whales’ main food source, shifted north, so too did the whales.
  — Nick Hawkins, National Geographic, 11 July 2019
• Kevin Lafferty examines a slide of a parasitic copepod found in the gills of a horn shark.
  — Kenneth R. Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2018
• Also, dogs drink loudly, lapping the water with their tongues, which is thought to scare away the infectious copepods.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2018
• Precisely why a bright flash drives copepods away is unclear.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• Whales eat krill and copepods bearing those isotopes, which turn up in fresh whale skin by about 6 months later, creating a record of the whales’ past travels.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 2 Mar. 2023
• All of this was a buffet for zooplankton, tiny creatures such as copepods and krill that are rich in fats and are key food sources for young fish, birds and some marine mammals.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
• And finally, warming oceans have forced copepods, a tiny crustacean that’s the main staple of the North Atlantic right whale’s diet, to migrate north.
  — Brian J. Skerry, National Geographic, 20 May 2020
• As right whales' preferred food, which are called copepods, move further north to avoid the warming waters, right whales are more concentrated in the US and Canada.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 30 Jan. 2020
• To continue the life cycle, they must be consumed by tiny aquatic creatures called copepods.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2018
• Among those organisms are copepods, tiny crustaceans that right whales have long fed on in the nutrient-rich waters off New England.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The massive North Atlantic right whale’s plates have evolved to filter and collect prey less than a tenth of an inch long — tiny invertebrate crustaceans called copepods.
  — Kathryn Miles, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• By swimming faster, the copepods swim past more fish larvae and other potential predators.
  — National Geographic, 27 Apr. 2016
• Meanwhile, northern copepods richer in lipids, that young steelhead eat, were less abundant.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
• The spit isn’t actually drool, but a parasitic copepod.
  — Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
• So there’s branchiopods, ostracods, copepods, cladocerans...and besides the crustaceans, there’s a lot more.
  — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
• Tiny crustaceans like copepods, which are also high consumers of phytoplankton, can make good meals for forage fish, which are then eaten by fish like salmon.
  — Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• The females are transparent, though their eyes can likely detect the male copepods and their shiny gyrations, Addadi says.
  — National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017
• Take, for example, the misadventures of a zooplankton called a copepod.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2018
• According to the Census of Marine Life, Chrysaora melanaster jellies feed on large zooplankton, small fish, copepods, and even other jellies.
  — Rachel Riederer, Smithsonian, 26 Oct. 2017
• The Japanese scientists postulated that pinks, which have exploded in numbers since the early 1990s, had gobbled up many of the copepods.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018
• Bowheads, on the other hand, have longer, fine baleen, specifically adapted to eating copepods and unsuitable for eating fish.
  — Christian Åslund, National Geographic, 2 July 2019
• That provides a bonanza for tiny creatures called copepods, amphipods, and zooplankton that feed on sea-ice undersides.
  — National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
• In the Atlantic, southern species such as capelin and Atlantic copepod are already encroaching in Arctic waters where they were not previously found.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 10 Dec. 2018
• This substance is produced by small crustaceans called copepods that often graze on dinoflagellates.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• Some scholars speculate that pollution and climate change are making copepods harder to find.
  — Kathryn Miles, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018

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