How to Use zooplankton in a Sentence
zooplankton
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But the zooplankton that adult right whales eat does not grow much in these places.
—Lela Nargi, Washington Post, 4 July 2022
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The team also used sonar to measure the amount of zooplankton in the area following a blast.
—National Geographic, 23 June 2017
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Copepods, a type of zooplankton that eats algae, will lose their source of food.
—Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2017
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This should allow researchers to see how much the sun has to dim to affect changes in the zooplankton’s movements.
—Deborah Netburn, The Seattle Times, 13 Aug. 2017
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Throngs of zooplankton and krill would gather to feast on the nutrients.
—Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 24 May 2017
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Bugs and zooplankton that provide a feast for the young salmon feed on abundant algae there.
—Carolyn Wilke, sacbee.com, 23 June 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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Because acidification of the ocean harms the zooplankton in the food chain, which feeds salmon.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Oct. 2017
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In the study, all immature krill were killed, and some zooplankton species decreased in number above 95%.
—Gabriella Sotelo, Treehugger, 14 July 2023
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During the day vulnerable zooplankton hide from predators such as squid and fish in the dark depths.
—Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
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Roughly the size of a starling, the little auk is a seabird that feasts almost entirely on tiny zooplankton.
—Discover Magazine, 24 July 2017
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In oxygen-thin water, lower parts of the food web, such as zooplankton and small fish like sardines and anchovies, suffer the most.
—Max Bearak, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2019
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But if these morsels are missing, jellyfish can eat tiny zooplankton — or even just feed on ooze.
—Carl Zimmer, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
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Yet the question of why so many species, from the tiniest zooplankton to whales, mistake so much of it for food has never been fully explored.
—Laura Parker, National Geographic, 9 Nov. 2016
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But Damman knew the local waters had abundant insect life and zooplankton to provide food for fish.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Dec. 2017
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Loud noise can flat out kill zooplankton, tiny creatures that help support the global marine-food web.
—Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
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One of the smallest zooplankton is the Irukandji jellyfish.
—Evan Hecht, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
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Another idea is to boost the numbers of zooplankton in ponds where amphibians breed.
—Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 19 July 2017
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The ice melt in years past would help create big undersea bands — stretching for miles — of zooplankton, bait fish and other food that pollock like to eat.
—Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 15 Sep. 2019
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The ice melt in years past would help create big undersea bands -- stretching for miles -- of zooplankton, bait fish and other food that pollock like to eat.
—Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2019
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Fram said zooplankton typically move toward the surface of the ocean at night.
—Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 20 Aug. 2017
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And the adventurous zooplankton are not alone in the nightly commute.
—Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2022
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From the largest whales to the smallest zooplankton, everything is eating plastic.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Outside Online, 8 Aug. 2019
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Seabirds feed on small, cold-water fish and zooplankton — small organisms that play a vital role in marine food chains.
—Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2019
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Both seals and whales eat fish and other creatures that get their energy from tiny creatures called zooplankton, which in turn eat the algae on sea ice.
—National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2019
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Barker had read about the tiny particles of plastic floating in the world's oceans that are being nabbed by hungry zooplankton.
—Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 10 May 2017
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For the zooplankton, eating glowing bacteria is a tricky trade-off.
—Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2011
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There are more salt-tolerant zooplankton species now than there were before road salt was widely used.
—Jamie Summers, Philly.com, 8 Dec. 2017
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The analysis suggests the zooplankton was high in the days following the shark grouping, which had an abundance of juveniles.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 13 Apr. 2018
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Methylmercury journeys up the food chain from phytoplankton and zooplankton to fish and humans.
—New York Times, 7 May 2020
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