How to Use copepod in a Sentence
copepod
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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
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In the second room, Meah’s copepod hangs against the wall.
—Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
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That has pushed northward their favourite food, copepods, a kind of small crustacean.
—The Economist, 18 July 2019
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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
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Warm waters brought less nutrient-rich copepods, tiny crustaceans at the base of the food chain.
—Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Precisely why a bright flash drives copepods away is unclear.
—The Economist, 21 June 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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To continue the life cycle, they must be consumed by tiny aquatic creatures called copepods.
—New York Times, 18 June 2018
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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
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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
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By swimming faster, the copepods swim past more fish larvae and other potential predators.
—National Geographic, 27 Apr. 2016
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Meanwhile, northern copepods richer in lipids, that young steelhead eat, were less abundant.
—Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2017
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The spit isn’t actually drool, but a parasitic copepod.
—Sabrina Imbler, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2021
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So there’s branchiopods, ostracods, copepods, cladocerans...and besides the crustaceans, there’s a lot more.
—Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 3 May 2023
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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
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The females are transparent, though their eyes can likely detect the male copepods and their shiny gyrations, Addadi says.
—National Geographic, 29 Mar. 2017
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Take, for example, the misadventures of a zooplankton called a copepod.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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That provides a bonanza for tiny creatures called copepods, amphipods, and zooplankton that feed on sea-ice undersides.
—National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
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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
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This substance is produced by small crustaceans called copepods that often graze on dinoflagellates.
—The Economist, 21 June 2019
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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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