Invisible Oceans Founder's Collection: Invisible Oceans #86: Calanus I

One of the most common browsers of the billions of tons of phytoplankton are the crustacean copepods, and these are without doubt a pivotal group within the marine biome, harnessing the source of copepods are calanoid Copepods, like Calanus itself. These small crustacea have mouth parts designed to waft a continuous circular current of phytoplankton towards the mouth. Copepods are the great herbivores of our oceans and we ignore their importance and survival at our peril. No phytoplankton and copepods.....no life on Earth!

Bermuda (2006)

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