Nature Adrift: The Story of Marine Plankton

abundant adult amphipod arrow-worms attached bacteria barnacles bottom bottom-living British Isles Calanus carnivores catch cells cent Chapter coast coccolithophores cold colour copepods crab creatures crustacea currents D. P. Wilson decapod deep water depth diatoms dinoflagellates drifted eggs euphausid European eel feed fertilizer filter fisheries floating food supply haddock herbivores Iceland inch increase inshore James Fraser jelly jellyfish large numbers larvae layers Lennart Nilsson leptocephalus light living lobster marine medusa mesh metres migrate millimetres mixed molluscs nanoplankton nauplius North Atlantic North Sea northern North Sea numbers nutrients oceanic water oozoid Photograph by D. P. Photographs by James photophores phytoplankton plaice plankton planktonic animals planktonic larvae planktonic organisms planktonic stage plants Plate Sagitta elegans salinity salps sample sea water shells ship sink siphonophore spawning species Spiratella squids surface swim temperature towed tropical usually warm water water mass whales worms young fish zoea zooplankton