"Zooplankton" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Minute free-floating animal organisms which live in practically all natural waters.
| Descriptor ID |
D015048
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B05.080.500.980
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Zooplankton" by people in Profiles.
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Microbial gardening in the ocean's twilight zone: detritivorous metazoans benefit from fragmenting, rather than ingesting, sinking detritus: fragmentation of refractory detritus by zooplankton beneath the euphotic zone stimulates the harvestable production of labile and nutritious microbial biomass. Bioessays. 2014 Dec; 36(12):1132-7.
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Reconciliation of the carbon budget in the ocean's twilight zone. Nature. 2014 Mar 27; 507(7493):480-3.