zooplankton

/zoh-uh-plangk-tuhn/US // ˌzoʊ əˈplæŋk tən //UK // (ˌzəʊəˈplæŋktən) //

浮游生物,浮游动物,浮游植物,无脊椎动物

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the aggregate of animal or animallike organisms in plankton, as protozoans.

We could soon see the loss of zooplankton and small fish crucial to our seafood supply, a subject that Washington-based researcher Sonya Dyhrman has explored while showing how vulnerable our food chain is to climate change.
The new insights about internal structure are welcome news to Russell Hopcroft, a zooplankton ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.