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Meaning of "meroplankton" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MEROPLANKTON

ˌmɛrəʊˈplæŋktən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MEROPLANKTON

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Meroplankton is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MEROPLANKTON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Meroplankton

Meroplankton are organisms that are planktonic for only a part of their life cycles, usually the larval stage. Examples of meroplankton include the larvae of sea urchins, sea stars, crustaceans, marine worms, some marine gastropods and most fish. Some dinoflagellates and diatoms are also meroplanktonic. Meroplankton spend only the larval or early stages of their life as part of the plankton and spend their adult lives on the reef. Some, like polychaete worms, will then revisit the plankton during their reproductive stages. Many of the common, well-known animals found on the Great Barrier Reef spend time as free-swimming meroplankton, bearing little or no resemblance to the adult they will become. The differences between the appearance of larval and adult stages led to much confusion in the past when larval forms were often believed to be completely different species from the adults. While living in the plankton, meroplankton either feed on other members of the plankton, or they live off the yolk they have retained from the egg they hatched from. Larvae spend varying amounts of time in the plankton, from minutes to over a year.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MEROPLANKTON

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MEROPLANKTON

meroblastic · meroblastically · merocrine · merogeneses · merogenesis · merogenetic · merogony · meroistic · meromorphic · meromyosin · meronym · meronymy · meropia · meropic · meropidan · merosome · Merovingian · merozoite · merrie · merrier

WORDS THAT END LIKE MEROPLANKTON

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Synonyms and antonyms of meroplankton in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «meroplankton» into 25 languages

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MEROPLANKTON»

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Meroplankton in Jorgen Bronlund Fjord, North Greenland
Meroplankton in J0rgen Br0nlund Fjord, North Greenland OLE G. NORDEN ANDERSEN Andersen, Ole G. Norden 1984. Meroplankton in J0rgen Br0nlund Fjord, North Greenland. Meddr Gr0nland, Biosci. 12, 25 pp. Copenhagen 1984- 06-15.
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Contemporary Studies on Fish Feeding
XT = Density of meroplankton available. C. Number of tintinnids consumed. X, = Density of nauplii + copepds + meroplankton available. XT = Density of tintinnids available. or of meroplankton. In larvae larger than 14mm SL, the numbers of ...
Charles A. Simenstad, Gregor M. Cailliet, 1986
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Siberian River Run-off in the Kara Sea: Characterisation, ...
I. Fetzer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Columbusstrasse 2, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany Abstract Meroplankton was sampled at 1 1 stations in the southern Kara Sea and the Yenisei Estuary in September 2000.
Stein Ruediger, 2003
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Practical Handbook of Marine Science, Third Edition
Meroplankton Many benthic invertebrates, benthic chordates, and fish remain planktonic for only a portion of their life cycle, and hence comprise the meroplankton. About 70% of all benthic marine invertebrate species have a meroplanktonic ...
Michael J. Kennish, 2000
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Reproduction, Genetics and Distributions of Marine ...
Variability of the meroplankton Total number of individuals. In each year the seasonal development of the meroplankton was similar at the stations, but differences between years can be established (Figure 2). In 1985, high densities were ...
John Stanley Ryland, Paul A. Tyler, 1989
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An Anthology of Articles on Aquatic Research
Diversity of Meroplankton in Palk Bay and Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve Areas Along the East Coast of India P.Krishnamoorthy and P.Subramanian Dr.P. Krishnamoorthy received his PhD in Zoology from the Bharathidasan University,  ...
Dr.P.Subramanian
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The Indian Ocean: A Perspective
Meroplankton includes the different types of trochophore and veliger larvae of benthic worms and molluscs; different kinds of nauplii and zoeae of bottom and surface living crustanceans; cyphonautes larvae; ascidian and tornaria larvae; the ...
Rabin Sen Gupta, Ehrlich Desa, 2001
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Important Meroplankton of the Lower Chesapeake Bay and ...
Meroplankton which move through the area in ecological significant numbers are blue crab larvae, Bay anchovy larvae, bivalve veligers, polychaeta larvae, larvaceans, and the sand shrimp larvae.
Arthur J. Butt, Raymond W Alden (III.), Robert J Young (Jr), 1985
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Marine Chemical Ecology
The Chemical Ecology of Invertebrate Meroplankton and Holoplankton James B. McClintock,* Bill J. Baker, and Deborah K. Steinberg CONTENTS I. Introduction.... ....................................................................................................................196 A. The ...
James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, 2001
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Oceanological Studies
Meroplankton Among Mollusca larvae, which comprised 15.6% of the zooplankton caught during the investigations, veliger Bivalvia and veliger Gastropoda were found, the latter of which constituted less than 1% of all mollusk larvae.

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MEROPLANKTON»

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Glaciers Influence Marine Invertebrates in Chile
The researchers observed meroplankton—organisms which have planktonic features in their larval stages, but live sessile in the bottom as ... «GlacierHub, Feb 15»
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