Environment, Climate Change, Oceanography, Ecology, Zooplankton.
to surface waters, where they exploit the spring phytoplankton bloom (typically in May) for growth and, once they reach the copepodite stages, the accumulation of lipid stores for the winter. N. flemingeri (copepodite stage C5) preparing to descend. Scale: 2 mm. Photo taken by Prof Russ Hopcroft.