collecting samples of cold water from the deepest parts of Lake Tahoe, dropping a jellyfish-shaped net to catch zooplankton or leaning over the edge of the deck to watch a white frisbee-shaped ...

Studying the feeding habits of zooplankton can provide new insights into both energy transfer and nutrient cycling. "Water fleas are often the most important grazers of algae in lakes, and they ...

VanDenPlas says the tiny fry will be taken to a food source, or zooplankton, and stocked into the 6,200-acre Shawano Lake. "Well over 99% of these will not make it to spawning size. And that's ...

The shallow lakes warm up earlier than deep lakes, and as a result, it is believed the shallow lakes probably hold a better supply of new zooplankton as a food source for the fry. The first of the ...

Researchers at Rice University have identified a hidden mechanism linking rising temperatures to population declines in ...

zooplankton, bacteria, and fungi. (Hampton took a small aside to compliment the drinking water quality at Lake Tahoe now that she’s moved to the area.) While she’s worked at many different ...

and Carpenter and colleagues further developed the trophic cascade concept with experimental studies in lakes, demonstrating that fish can control zooplankton abundance which, in turn, controls ...

Paige Gilchrist is an aquatic invasive species ecologist with the Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment. Last year, six boats ...

There are many places in the Great Lakes where the skies are dark enough to enjoy the ... In marine environments, light pollution disrupts the feeding patterns of zooplankton, which affects the entire ...