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[plangk-tuhn]

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noun

the aggregate of passively floating, drifting, or somewhat motile organisms occurring in a body of water, primarily comprising microscopic algae and protozoa.

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Origin:
1890–95; < German, special use of neuter of Greek planktós drifting, equivalent to plang-, variant stem of plázesthai to drift, roam, wander + -tos verbid suffix

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plank·ton·ic

[plangk-ton-ik] , adjective

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Exploring the unremarkable intellectual tussle over the fate of plankton in a warming world.

What it's definitely not from is diatoms and plankton.

The marine plankton that end up as oil and natural gas undergo similar transformations.

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Exploring the unremarkable intellectual tussle over the fate of plankton in a warming world.

What it's definitely not from is diatoms and plankton.

The marine plankton that end up as oil and natural gas undergo similar transformations.

Plankton in the open ocean need a precise mixture of sunlight in shallower waters and nutrients from the deep.

Basking sharks can be found in coastal waters and feed on plankton.

With the world's natural reefs in peril, decommissioned vehicles are building up habitats for plankton and other sea life.

Three marine scientists respond to critics of their paper on declining plankton and rising temperatures.

It will probably hurt the plankton and cause the world to go under.

Recent rises in ocean temperature have led to an increase in the amount of plankton in the protected waters around the island.

Its resolution is sufficient to show dense concentrations of plankton measuring a fraction of a millimeter.

Recent studies have shown that there's more plastic than plankton in some of the remote parts of our oceans.

They feed by filtering plankton and fish eggs from a vortex.

The evidence comes from foraminifera, crunchy plankton that float by the untold billions in the ocean.

Several preliminary experiments have shown that plankton do, indeed, bloom when iron is added.

White plankton shells vanished from the seafloor mud, shifting its color from white to red.

The spring is too hot to sustain enough algae and plankton to feed them all.

In the marketing, this food gets its high energy properties from oh-so-tasty plankton.

Some pieces end up in plankton and algae, or drift to the ocean floor.

They open their mouths, suck water in and filter it for the plankton that is their food.

The abundance of plankton could lead to more sealife, and the new connections by sea will help the trading industry.

If algae and plankton communities are threatened, the entire food web may change.

Each pond often has a unique array of species, from plankton to fish-even if.

Like iron seeding, urea dumping is supposed to nourish blooms of greenhouse gas-gobbling plankton.

As a result, its highly unusual food web is reorganizing, as warmer water species of plankton become more prevalent.

Animals such as fish and turtles that feed on algae and plankton will have less food.

The more plankton in the water, the more light that's emitted.

Findings in northern regions of preserved hippo predecessors, tropical plankton and pollen from tropical palms support the idea.

The prolific carp devour vast amounts of plankton that would normally be eaten by juvenile native fish.

Students' diagrams should have an arrow from krill to plankton and arrows from all other species to krill.

As these currents travel, the water loses oxygen as dead algae, plankton and other organic matter decay.

Corals, plankton and shellfish may literally dissolve.

Paddlefish filter-feed on tiny organisms, using electro-receptors in their rostrums to detect plankton blooms.

The plankton lure whales and great schools of capelin and polar cod, which provide food for seabirds and seals.

Specifically with coccolithophorids which are another calcifying plankton.

Fish that feed on plankton ingest the tiny plastic particles.

For dates where the ice-core and plankton data overlap, the.

Sardines thrived here, feeding on the rich blooms of plankton fertilized by nutrients carried along by rising deep ocean waters.

Varying levels of salinity and plankton do indeed have an impact on an oyster's taste and texture.

They move near the surface, feeding on the plankton and krill that.

Now back to this journal, as the zooplankton diminish plankton populations, less carbon dioxide is utilised in photosynthesis.

Nitrogen from agricultural runoff and sewage stimulates the growth of photosynthetic plankton on the surface of coastal waters.

Many native fish species, such as paddlefish, also feed on plankton.

Similarly, whale can feed on plankton growing in rich cold ocean.

As you hit the water, there is a light show of bioluminescent plankton flashing in response to your intrusion into their world.

They are as small as the algae and plankton that form the basis of the food chain.

Plants have been evolving to maximize their growth potential for hundreds of millions of years, from plankton to trees.

The mussels sharply reduce the plankton food base and cost billions of dollars to remove from water-intake structures.

Fast moving currents concentrate plankton and other goodies for filter-feeding animals that fuel these entire ecosystems.

Researchers hypothesized that the dead and decaying material in the sea would result in a huge growth in plankton populations.

The international team also collected plankton samples and small fish for study.

They use their baleen to filter tiny plankton and shrimplike krill out of the water.

It's made living on the sea ice, much more pleasant and the plankton world is feeling the coming of spring too.

It gathers anchovies, sardines, and tiny animals and plants called plankton.

Rather, they filter-feed on plankton and other small marine creatures, which they suck into their open mouths as they swim.

For one, floating slicks of oil may be killing the pancake batfishes' plankton food supply.

They take in seawater and filter out plankton and small animals to eat.

Jellyfish eat the tiny plankton at the base of the ocean food chain.

The complexly branched arms of the basket sea star, or starfish, catch plankton for the echinoderm.

Algae and plankton are the main producers in marine ecosystems.

Tiny shrimp called krill eat the microscopic plankton.

There's a lot of winter plankton in the water and a lot of nutrients.

Larvae and post-larvae are likely to consume oil directly or through the plankton and other food that they eat.

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World English Dictionary

plankton (ˈplæŋktən)

—n
	Compare nekton the organisms inhabiting the surface layer of a sea or lake, consisting of small drifting plants and animals, such as diatoms

[C19: via German from Greek planktos wandering, from plazesthai to roam]

planktonic

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

plankton

1891, from Ger. Plankton (1887), coined by Ger. physiologist Viktor Hensen (1835-1924) from Gk. plankton, neut. of planktos "wandering, drifting," verbal adj. from plazesthai "to wander, drift," from plazein "to drive astray."

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Science Dictionary

plankton

(plāngk'tən) Pronunciation Key
Small organisms that float or drift in great numbers in bodies of salt or fresh water. Plankton is a primary food source for many animals, and consists of bacteria, protozoans, certain algae, cnidarians, tiny crustaceans such as copepods, and many other organisms. Compare benthos , nekton.

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