Talk:Zooplankton

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[edit] Real encyclopedia?

Is this a real encyclopedia or is just a stupid page where we put up the answers?

Well, that depends. Are individual editors trying to create a real encyclopedia, or are they satisfying the lowest common denominator and pasting up answers for lazy students? As I created this article, I can confirm that, in this case, it's the former. I can't, of course, speak for other pages. Anyway, what kind of editor are you? Cheers, --Plumbago 16:29, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zooplankton location

What attracts zooplankton to one spot? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.171.58.128 (talk • contribs).

Most zooplankton do not have the sensory capacity to locate and travel to a remote source of food (as plankton, they cannot travel independently of the water mass that carries them). Instead, higher local concentrations are usually indicative of local population growth. Sometimes, zooplankton undergoing diel vertical migration between the surface and deeper waters will remain at the surface if they find food particularly abundant there. Anyway, does this help? --Plumbago 08:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External link

The original reference "* Plankton*Net, images of planktonic species" has been replaced by a new one, which leads directly to the new site. LouisBB (talk) 05:23, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spelling

Isn't the word properly spelled "zoöplankton" rather then "zooplankton", since the o's do not form a dipthong? --204.191.199.184 (talk) 21:59, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm. There may well be a linguistic justification for "zoöplankton", but I don't think that I've ever seen it spelt this way (and I work on plankton systems). Since I doubt that anyone will be confused by the absent "ö", I reckon we leave things as they are. Cheers, --Plumbago (talk) 08:34, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] eat

what do they eat? --70.231.128.38 (talk) 22:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

i mean get eaten by--70.231.128.38 (talk) 22:57, 29 May 2008 (UTC)