Month: August 2019

Recognizing an Acartia copepod

Recognizing an Acartia copepod
Hello! I'm an Acartia nauplius. That means, a young copepod. I live in the Baltic Sea, near the city of Turku. The researchers in the Archipelago Research Institute caught me a while ago.… Well, to be honest - I'm not alive any more. When researchers take zooplankton samples for biomonitoring they add a some formaldehyde in the sample to preserve all the animals for the future. In other words - they kill us. In return they get information about the state of the water and relationships between phytoplankton/zooplankton/fish and many more things. Acartia nauplius. I'm not that big, onl...
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