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Encyclopedic overview
24 sectionsContents
- Plankton and planktivory across taxonomic classes
- Phytoplankton: prey
- Zooplankton: predators and prey
- Vertebrates: predators and prey
- Feeding strategies
- Mechanics of consuming plankton
- Nutritional value of plankton
- Planktivory across ecological systems
- Ancient systems
- Arctic systems
- Temperate and sub-arctic systems
- Nutrient limitation in lake systems
- Planktivore effects on a global scale
- Trophic regulation
- Nutrient transport
- Planktivore modification on plankton growth
- Harmful algal blooms
- The role of climate change
- Arctic and Antarctic
- Subarctic
- Tropics
- Effects of planktivores on industry
- See also
- References
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A planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton. Planktivorous organisms encompass a range of some of the planet's smallest to largest multicellular animals in both the present day and in the past billion years; basking sharks and copepods are just two examples of giant and microscopic organisms that feed upon plankton.
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