Zooplankton Flashcards
Pelagic
Water column where floating and free swimming organisms live
Benthic
Bottom
Pleuston/neuston
Surface
Nekton / plankton
Pelagic organism
Benthic organism
on bottom
Sessile
stuck to bottom
epifauna
live on bottom
Endofauna
Live in bottom
Vagile
able to swim about
demersal
live and feed on or near bottoms
meiofauna
live in interstitial space
Holoplankton
Pelagic species spending entire life cycle in open water
Meroplankton
Pelagic stages of those species, which otherwise are nektik or benthic (fish larvae)
Qualitative sampling
What species?
Quantative sampling
obtain density estimates of 1 species
water filtration
yields qualitative and quantitative samples
water sampling
quantitative sampling
in-situ
in original / normal position of place
how to analyse zooplankton?
In-situ imaging, bio-acoustic methods, DNA barcoding
Tintinnida
bell shaped
ctenophora
comb-jellies
cnidaria
jellyfish, sea anemones and corals, hydrozoans
cnidaria reproduction cycle
medusa and polyp stages
Crustacea copepoda
copepods