58, No. 6 (2013), pp. 2145-2157 (13 pages) In most aquatic ecosystems, copepod nauplii outnumber all other mesozooplankton. Although thousands of studies have examined feeding by later life history ...

Parasitic copepods are “parasitic barnacles,” though ... Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre in Australia reports. They ...

Ever since Charles Darwin, scientists have assumed species facing the same problem often evolve similar traits. But that’s ...

Three publications recently reported that calanoid copepods, feeding on phytoplankton cells by using a feeding current, perceived such cells by mechanoperception. There was no evidence of remote ...

Aiming a laser and a camera at a feasting sea walnut, Colin tracked the movement of particles in the feeding current and found that the water stream is so wide and slow that the copepod is ...

Clean and safe lake water is an important part of the Finnish identity. In recent decades, interest in the condition of lake waters has increased. Land use and climate change are creating new ...