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Tiny Eurasian exotic is upending watery ecosystems across the northern Great lakes The zooplankton never saw it coming.
and zooplankton in the Upper Midwest have added never the spiny water flea to their stink list.
The scientists checked out Lakes Michigan Superior and many interior lakes and lingered two years in Voyageurs national park on Minnesota's border with Canada to examine Bythotrephes'long-term effect on the native zooplankton.
or no Bythotrephes they had far fewer of the native zooplankton that support a food web topped by pike bass walleye--and of course fishermen.
They also compared their measurements with data from as far back as 2001 and found that some native zooplankton species had nosedived
In addition they documented similar crashes in the populations of native predatory zooplankton species that feed on other zooplankton probably
The zooplankton communities in Scandanavia and Northern europe have adjusted to it Kerfoot said. They have evolved together
North american zooplankton like many Daphnia and Bosmina species which are favorites on Bythotrephes'menu have similar hardware
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