Marine zooplankton comprise a phylogenetically and functionally diverse assemblage of
protistan and metazoan consumers that occupy multiple trophic levels in pelagic food webs …

Larvaceans are gelatinous zooplankton abundant throughout the ocean. Larvaceans have
been overlooked in research because they are difficult to collect and are perceived as being …

Zooplankton are major primary consumers and predators in most aquatic ecosystems. They
exhibit tremendous diversity of traits, ecological strategies and, consequently, impacts on …

Plastic waste is a pervasive feature of marine environments, yet little is empirically known
about the biological and physical processes that transport plastics through marine …

The pelagic tunicates, gelatinous zooplankton that include salps, doliolids, and
appendicularians, are filter feeding grazers thought to produce a significant amount of …

Exploring climate and anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems requires an
understanding of how trophic components interact. However, integrative end-to-end …

Mucous-mesh grazers (pelagic tunicates and thecosome pteropods) are common in oceanic
waters and efficiently capture, consume and repackage particles many orders of magnitude …

Suspension feeders (SFs) evolved a high diversity of mechanisms, sometimes with
remarkably convergent morphologies, to retain plankton, detritus and man-made particles …

Gelatinous zooplankton are increasingly recognized to play a key role in the ocean's
biological carbon pump. Appendicularians, a class of pelagic tunicates, are among the most …

Abstract The 'taxonomic sufficiency'(TS) approach has been applied to algae, protists,
invertebrates, and vertebrates, generally by aggregating species-level abundance data to a …