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Organism Forms > Aquatic Organisms > Plankton
Geographic Locations > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Plankton
Physical Phenomena > Geological Phenomena > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Plankton
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Plankton
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Aquatic Organisms > Plankton

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Plankton  

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  • coordinate with specific organism; PHYTOPLANKTON and ZOOPLANKTON are also available; non-phototrophic bacterioplankton: index PLANKTON + BACTERIA or specific; phototrophic bacterioplankton: index PHYTOPLANKTON + BACTERIA or specific

Scope note

  • Community of tiny aquatic PLANTS and ANIMALS, and photosynthetic BACTERIA, that are either free-floating or suspended in the water, with little or no power of locomotion. They are divided into PHYTOPLANKTON and ZOOPLANKTON.

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D010933

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