A study was undertaken to compare two methods commonly used to determine plankton's populations: the Net Plankton Method and the Plankton Centrifuge Method. Water samples for biological analysis were ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A study of net plankton in Sardis Reservoir and tributaries was made from June 3 to August 11, 1953. Fifteen collecting stations were ...

Plant plankton — some of it visible, some microscopic — help keep Earth cool. They take carbon dioxide — the key greenhouse gas — out of the air to keep the world from getting even warmer, Boyce said.

Melissa DuBose casts a net out into the sea on a crisp winter morning, from a wooden pier near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. “I come out here every week,” she says. She reels in her net to ...

A SELF-CLOSING plankton net has long been needed for horizontal towing. It is especially necessary for the investigation of the vertical distribution of pelagic organisms. Numerous attempts have ...