For the second time, a workshop on phytoplankton identification will be held on Kemiö Island, Finland. This year there is a special group of algae we concentrate on – cryptomonads.
Our workshop aims to fulfill both the need of microscoping and discussing phytoplankton identification problems together as well as the theoretical background on identifying and microscoping, the emphasis being on practical identification. Although the theme of the year is cryptomonads the participants are welcome to take their own samples and photo’s on any other phytoplankton group they wish to discuss dur...
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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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