The presence of microplastics in marine environments disrupts carbon cycles and contributes to climate change, affecting ecosystems and greenhouse gas dynamics.

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For zooplankton, 25 taxa were identified (Table 3). Copepods comprised eight taxa (32% of the total species), while Cladocera accounted for 17 taxa (68% of the total species), distributed amongst the ...

We collected muscles of fishes, abdominal muscles of shrimps, and the whole body of small planktonic crustaceans, such as copepods. To prevent the C isotopes ... in isotopic niche use among the five ...

A similar membrane can easily be shown, to surround the fæcal pellets of calanoid copepods, where it often forms a ‘tail’, occasionally of considerable length, at each end of the pellet.

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A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...