as zooplankton become more abundant and eat more phytoplankton, the population of phytoplankton should shrink.
随着浮游动物变得越来越丰富,它们吃掉的浮游植物也就越多,浮游植物的数量就会减少。
phytoplankton are the foundation of the aquatic food web, the primary producers, feeding everything from microscopic, animal-like zooplankton to multi-ton whales.
浮游植物是水生食物网的基础,作为初级生产者,它们是小到微观浮游动物、大到数吨的鲸鱼的食物。
phytoplankton are typically eaten by zooplankton - tiny marine animals - which themselves are prey for small fish and other animals.
浮游动物(微小的海洋生物)通常吃浮游植物,而其本身又是小鱼和其它动物的捕食对象。
however, the results also show that zooplankton should boom in these warmer areas, which could benefit certain fisheries.
而实验结果还表明,浮游动物在比较温暖的水域中会加速繁殖,这可能对某些鱼类有利。
now, the zooplankton consume the phytoplankton more quickly than they can multiply, bringing an end to the spring bloom.
如今,浮游动物消耗浮游植物的速度远远高于它们(植物)的繁殖速度,从而把这场春天的浮游植物爆发带入了尾声。
eons of subterranean pressure and heat transformed cambrian zooplankton and algae into present-day petroleum fields.
我们今天的油田,是寒武纪时期的藻类及浮游动物在地层的高温、高压环境下,经过漫长的时期才逐渐变成的。
typically, this is a fish-eat-fish affair, with vegetarians like krill taking their place at the bottom (phytoplankton are plants, whereas zooplankton are animals).
这是典型的涉及在食物链底端(浮游植物是植物,反之浮游动物是动物)的象磷虾等植食动物的鱼吃鱼的事件。
whereas many estimates about zooplankton had been based on biomass or functional groups, she has been trying 「to put species back in the equation,」 she says.
鑒于许多对浮游生物物种分类的估计是基于生物量
cod eat sprats, a small, herring-like species that eat microscopic marine creatures called zooplankton that in turn eat the algae.
鳕鱼吃西鲱鱼,西鲱鱼吃浮游动物,而浮游动物又以藻类为食。
the delta smelt lives in brackish water, eats zooplankton and usually grows no longer than three inches (7.6 cm).
三角洲胡瓜鱼身长不过三英寸(7.6cm),以浮游物为食,微咸水为家。
she adds that even though overall biological productivity declined as temperature rose, the increase in zooplankton could benefit fish that eat them in nutrient-rich waters.
尽管随着温度的升高生物的总体繁殖能力在降低,但是在富含营养成分的水域中浮游动物会增加,以此为食的鱼类可能会受益。
the seasonal variation of zooplankton biomass was in agreement with that of phytoplankton density.
浮游动物生物量与浮游植物密度的季节变化趋势相一致。
within the patch, pieces of plastic outweigh zooplankton by a factor of 6 to 1, and are often mistaken by fish and birds for food.
在这个垃圾场中,塑料碎片和浮游生物的比重为6比1,鱼和鸟经常搞错以为这是食物。
in fact, the ratio of zooplankton to phytoplankton rose 10-fold, the team reports in a paper posted online on 25 august in plos biology.
8月25日,研究小组在《公共科学图书馆-生物学》在线版上发表的论文中报道:事实上,浮游动物跟浮游植物的比值上升了10倍。
the tubs that got additional nutrients were another story: the zooplankton in warmer water became more abundant while the numbers of phytoplankton fell.
额外加入营养成分的水缸情况就不一样了:在比较温暖的水中,浮游动物的数量更多了,而浮游植物的数量下降了。