Plankton | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton


00:01:07 1 Terminology
00:03:13 2 Trophic groups
00:05:30 3 Size groups
00:06:19 4 Distribution
00:08:30 5 Ecological significance
00:08:41 5.1 Food chain
00:09:06 5.2 Carbon cycle
00:10:20 5.3 Oxygen production
00:11:08 6 Biomass variability
00:12:55 7 Importance to fish



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Plankton are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current. The individual organisms constituting plankton are called plankters. They provide a crucial source of food to many large aquatic organisms, such as fish and whales.
These organisms include bacteria, archaea, algae, protozoa and drifting or floating animals that inhabit—for example—the pelagic zone of oceans, seas, or bodies of fresh water. Essentially, plankton are defined by their ecological niche rather than any phylogenetic or taxonomic classification.
Though many planktonic species are microscopic in size, plankton includes organisms over a wide range of sizes, including large organisms such as jellyfish.
Technically the term does not include organisms on the surface of the water, which are called pleuston—or those that swim actively in the water, which are called nekton.