Definition of phytoplankton
: planktonic plant life
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The phytoplankton could also wreak havoc on the rest of the ecosystem.
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Elsewhere Winderen draws exclusively on sources from nature, such as the hydrophone recordings that constitute her 2016 piece The Wanderer, a 31-minute investigation of zooplankton and phytoplankton.
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While the phytoplankton in the mesocosms were blooming, in mid-April 2013, the researchers added fertilized herring eggs to all 10 of them.
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In the past decade, scientists have measured an 80 percent fall in phytoplankton, which sit at the bottom of the marine food web and provide the building blocks of life for nearly all organisms in the ocean.
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So the local copepod population starts to crash, and the algae population in turn explodes, the phytoplankton poisoning themselves with all their waste products.
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The researchers also will be collecting phytoplankton samples, if algae blooms occur.
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In Big Sur, bioluminescent phytoplankton have made the waves glow.
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For ages, the phytoplankton fed the zooplankton, which were eaten by small, foraging fish.
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