The Wonders of Marine Plankton

Marine plankton, despite their tiny size, are crucial for the functioning of marine food webs. It is not just about one organism eating another; when this happens, it helps release the nutrients accumulated within living matter, making them available again for microalgae. Plankton are present in fre...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Calbet, Albert (مؤلف)
مؤلف مشترك: SpringerLink (Online service)
التنسيق: الكتروني كتاب الكتروني
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
الطبعة:1st ed. 2024.
الموضوعات:
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50766-3
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جدول المحتويات:
  • Chapter 1: A Teaspoon of Seawater: A Tiny Ecosystem
  • Chapter 2: The Marine Biological Pump
  • Chapter 3: The Four Seasons of Plankton
  • Chapter 4: The Rhythms of Plankton
  • Chapter 5: Plankton, Mussels with French Fries, and Diarrhea
  • Chapter 6: Are there carnivorous plants in the sea?
  • Chapter 7: The Most Formidable Predators of the Ocean: The Protists
  • Chapter 8: Copepods: Good Things Come in Small Packages
  • Chapter 9: Water Fleas, Matriarchy, and a Parasite Named Like a German Sausage
  • Chapter 10: Gelatinous Plankton: Itchy Jellyfish, Appendicularians with Luxury Chalets, Filter Barrels, and other Extraordinary Creatures
  • Chapter 11: Holoplankton and Meroplankton: two Peculiar Terms for Common Creatures
  • Chapter 12: Feeding Mechanisms in Zooplankton
  • Chapter 13: Evading Predators: The Clever Tactics of Plankton Survival
  • Chapter 14: Bioluminescent Plankton
  • Chapter 15: Global Warming and Plankton
  • Chapter 16: Plankton Adaptations to Extreme Environments
  • Chapter 17: The Fragility of Plankton
  • Chapter 18: From Land and Sea
  • Chapter 19: Plastic: you Are Plankton and to Plankton you Shall Return
  • Chapter 20: Why are there no insects in the sea?
  • Chapter 21: Harnessing the Power of Plankton: A Revolutionary Approach to Industry
  • Chapter 22: Sampling plankton
  • Chapter 23: Myths and Legends of Modern Research: Experimenting with Zooplankton
  • Chapter 24: A Brief History of Plankton Discovery.