Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are studying how nanoplastics affect aquatic organisms in lakes and rivers. Their findings are surprising, and the researchers are the first to show that ...

Zooplankton are tiny creatures that live in watery environments and form the base of the food web in many aquatic environments. The organisms examined for the study were two common types of ...

About 2 billion gallons of that contaminated water was released into Bubbly Creek, where the authors of the study tracked tiny aquatic organisms known as zooplankton, including Moinidae and ...

Zooplankton are one of the pillars of the aquatic food web. And while they do feed on algae, they also rely on materials derived from maple leaves, pine needles, and whatever else comes in from ...

For example, a decline in one species can lead to an increase in another. This happens with tiny aquatic animals called zooplankton that graze on microscopic plants called phytoplankton. Salt kills or ...

While these tiny aquatic animals are known to graze on other bacteria, new research indicates that they do not “clean” fresh or saltwater by eating the fecal microorganisms in the polluted H 2 0.

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Another foundational part of the aquatic food chain, zooplankton consume algae but tend to stay away from blue-green algae, due to a difficult to digest mucus, thus leading to a lack of nutrients ...

At the same time, another migration is going on. Zooplankton – tiny aquatic animals – drift out of the shallows and settle into the lake’s basin.

Scientists have learned over the years that when aquatic organisms such as zooplankton become exposed to microplastics, they eat poorly. Research at Purdue University now shows that their plastic ...