These huge blooms sink to the sea floor when the plankton die, transporting carbon to the deep sea and helping to fight climate change. While plankton blooms like this are usually natural ...

1931-1946 (16 pages) We used amino acid (AA) compound-specific isotope analysis (δ15NAA and δ13CAA values) of midwater zooplankton and suspended particles ... and small mesozooplankton in the central ...

Around the deep-sea vents off the southern coast of Japan ... The filter-feeding species eat plankton by catching the tiny creatures on their mucus and then moving them to their mouth through ...

can survive in both shallow waters and the deep ocean. They use their tube feet to eat tiny bits of algae and decaying organisms on the sea floor or plankton closer to the surface. The smallest ...