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The sizes given here were using two different systems, I think, since all the ranges they listed were based on multiples of ten except one, and that created a notable gap. They also reported the size of a water molecule to be 20 μm, which is a little on the large side. I've standardized on a system that seems to be popular on-line. However, that isn't necessarily the one biologists use, so it should be checked.
The tiniest plankton must eat still smaller planton! Is there a point at which the organisms just self-reproduce? Adambisset 17:05, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I think the one word answer here, which above have not mentioned is: Picoplankton. - Marcus334 ( talk) 18:02, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi JesseW. I'm responsible for the recent reorganisation of the images to the right hand side of the article. Although I wasn't particularly happy with my own work, I think the new arrangement is a bit messy. I think part of the problem is that the article itself is too short to support the number of images we have (though I may try to extend it - I should really, plankton are my bread and butter). Anyway, I hope you won't be offended if I re-edit.
On another note, the pictures aren't terribly representative of plankton in the first place - I think they're all zooplankton. Ideally we'd have some phytoplankton and bacterioplankton (not that the latter make for good pictures!). Does anyone have anything to hand? Alternatively, we could scour existing pages for some images. I've worked extensively on the diatom page and it's got a nice image heading it up. Cheers, -- Plumbago 07:57, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
I suggest moving the Cultural references section in order to separate biological information from everything else. We've been doing this for other biology articles, it helps readers focus on what's interesting for them. If there are no objections in the next 4 days I'll do it. Lejean2000 13:53, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
When I went on a whale watch from Boston, we saw a giant disc-shaped creature that had what looked like a fin. They told us it was a megaplankton. It must have been at least a meter wide. Does anyone know what that's called, and if there's a Wikipedia article for them? If I ever get out there again, I'm going to bring an image-stabilizing camera and get me a picture of one of those things for this page. - Harmil 16:23, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
"The myriad of floating and drifting life in the upper layers of the ocean, mostly of very small size and collectively called "plankton", has been found to be rich in food material and if properly prepared, fit for human consumption. The main problem involved is concentrating this plankton in large amounts and separating the inedible from the edible parts. Fishes at the present time do this more efficiently than man can, and by eating the flesh of ocean fish, we indirectly get the benefit of the plankton. In the book "Kon-Tiki", the explorers tell how they strained plankton from the sea and found it bitter at first, but quite palatable after certain undesirable organisms were removed from it. During the last war German scientists also experimented with plankton as a possible source of food, though without particular success. One possible way of preparing plankton would be to press it into compact "planktonburgers", which could be fried and eaten on bread."
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/support/lib/seas/seasQA/QAs/p/plankton.html#number4
I don't know the best way to include the above, but it should be in there. AThousandYoung ( talk) 17:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Just something unclear. In this article, cyanobacteria are named as an important example for phytoplankton. However, in the bacterioplankton article, they are also listed. Does anybody know what if there is a consentus about the classification? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.192.139 ( talk) 08:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
PLANKTON COULD LIVE IN 2 DIFFERENT WATER SALT WATER OR FRESH WATER —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.236.107.41 ( talk) 18:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Plankton is a type of invertebrate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.234.4.17 ( talk • contribs)
section 2 3 4 is about the stars, planets, comets,moons.stars sre the things that are way up in the sky and they are realy minature suns.the stars are so far away that they can not be seen for 400 years just like if you was to shine a flash light at the stars they wouldent be abel to see the light for 400 years.now about the planetsthere are many planets jupiter is realy a dwaref planet because people and sieencetist belive that the planet is to small and that there dwarfes that live on jupiter.there other planets like neptune also.neptune is close to the sun but not to close.comets are the thing sthat fly bye in the skythat you always see, and sometimes people wish on them.now lets not forget about the moons.moons are so high up there is no way that you could reach it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.222.178.26 ( talk) 15:45, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
The term 'planktonic' is much more commonly used than 'planktic'. If you search google scholar, 'planktic' gets 10,400 hits while 'planktonic' gets 144,000 hits. Also the terminology should reflect usage in the scientific literature, rather than holding to what is strictly correct linguistically. Mikenorton ( talk) 13:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
... What? 60.231.4.91 ( talk) 09:22, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm finding this a definite lack on a lot of biology pages -- how many species of this sort of creatures are there? I've been searching the web like mad, trying to find out how many species of a number of things are known, and plankton is one. If anyone out there knows this, even a rough estimate, it would be an excellent addition to the article. Dismalscholar ( talk) 05:41, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
It says that plankton "are any drifting organisms ( animals, plants, archaea, or bacteria)", which is a strange way of writing and not entirely correct, since there are protist plankton as well, right? Like EHUX? I would suggest that the parenthesis read "( eukaryotes, archea, or bacteria)" which also makes more sense since these classes are on the same level. I am very ignorant of the topic though so I would rather not change it myself. Bob 130.238.239.80 ( talk) 08:53, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
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Should the Plankton template contain a link to Noctiluca scintillans? I was going round in circles a bit getting confused between that and Milky seas effect but I'm not an expert. Akerbeltz ( talk) 20:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I added a hyperlink for Amphiprion ocellaris into your article. I am a part of a Behavioral Ecology Class ( /info/en/?search=Education_Program:Washington_University_in_St._Louis/Behavioral_Ecology_%28Fall_2013%29) Washington University and our assignment was to create hyperlinks from our articles to other articles as examples. Best of luck with your article!! Gseehra123 ( talk) 22:23, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
new news that needs to be added to the article. http://theweek.com/article/index/266730/speedreads-scientists-shocked-to-discover-plankton-on-exterior-of-international-space-station — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gizziiusa ( talk • contribs) 19:41, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Plumbago - NASA-WATCH REPORT (*Not* Official NASA) - Issue still up-in-the-air (so-to-speak) => < ref name="NASAW-20140821">Cowing, Keith (21 August 2014). "Russian Scientists Claim That Algae Lives On ISS Exterior (Update)". NASA Watch. Retrieved 22 August 2014.</ref> - ALSO - < ref name="NWN-20140821">Stallard, Brian (21 August 2014). "Sea Plankton Found in Space? NASA Has Doubts". NatureWorldNews.com. Retrieved 23 August 2014.</ref> - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 01:43, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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I've noticed that the Mesoplancton section in the 'Size Groups' table lists 'Heteropoda', which links to the (terrestrial) spider genus, as an example. I guess this is a typo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:9F27:3C01:14BA:82E:AF6:2A4E ( talk) 18:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
What are the types of plankton? Also are there different types of willow tarmagins in Alaska? 2601:1C2:0:64D0:3C81:2AF3:851D:ABCD ( talk) 02:04, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi all, please read this article [1] called "Our empty oceans: Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life", let me quote, "..plankton.. has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic".
I will quote from the G.O.E.S. (Global Oceanic Environmental Survey Foundation) team that has conducted the research causing them to come to their serious conclusions, which I believe should be mentioned on this Wiki page in a Section of it's own:
"We are too late to stop catastrophic climate change, but humanity will survive. We will not survive the loss of marine life over the next 25 years, unless we stop all pollution now". [2]
– unsigned entry by: Is123Biblio ( talk) 21:21, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
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The entirety of the text in subsection Plankton#Geoplankton is highly similar (almost identical) to the entirety of the text of its “see also” target, Terrestrial animal#Geoplankton (redirected from Geoplankton).
The topic could potentially one day be its own article, but for now, I think it’s probably a good idea to keep the blurb on geoplankton in one of the two places where it’s currently found, and make the other place where it’s currently found a section transclusion.
Thoughts? Mifield 05:10, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
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The sizes given here were using two different systems, I think, since all the ranges they listed were based on multiples of ten except one, and that created a notable gap. They also reported the size of a water molecule to be 20 μm, which is a little on the large side. I've standardized on a system that seems to be popular on-line. However, that isn't necessarily the one biologists use, so it should be checked.
The tiniest plankton must eat still smaller planton! Is there a point at which the organisms just self-reproduce? Adambisset 17:05, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
I think the one word answer here, which above have not mentioned is: Picoplankton. - Marcus334 ( talk) 18:02, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi JesseW. I'm responsible for the recent reorganisation of the images to the right hand side of the article. Although I wasn't particularly happy with my own work, I think the new arrangement is a bit messy. I think part of the problem is that the article itself is too short to support the number of images we have (though I may try to extend it - I should really, plankton are my bread and butter). Anyway, I hope you won't be offended if I re-edit.
On another note, the pictures aren't terribly representative of plankton in the first place - I think they're all zooplankton. Ideally we'd have some phytoplankton and bacterioplankton (not that the latter make for good pictures!). Does anyone have anything to hand? Alternatively, we could scour existing pages for some images. I've worked extensively on the diatom page and it's got a nice image heading it up. Cheers, -- Plumbago 07:57, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
I suggest moving the Cultural references section in order to separate biological information from everything else. We've been doing this for other biology articles, it helps readers focus on what's interesting for them. If there are no objections in the next 4 days I'll do it. Lejean2000 13:53, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
When I went on a whale watch from Boston, we saw a giant disc-shaped creature that had what looked like a fin. They told us it was a megaplankton. It must have been at least a meter wide. Does anyone know what that's called, and if there's a Wikipedia article for them? If I ever get out there again, I'm going to bring an image-stabilizing camera and get me a picture of one of those things for this page. - Harmil 16:23, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
"The myriad of floating and drifting life in the upper layers of the ocean, mostly of very small size and collectively called "plankton", has been found to be rich in food material and if properly prepared, fit for human consumption. The main problem involved is concentrating this plankton in large amounts and separating the inedible from the edible parts. Fishes at the present time do this more efficiently than man can, and by eating the flesh of ocean fish, we indirectly get the benefit of the plankton. In the book "Kon-Tiki", the explorers tell how they strained plankton from the sea and found it bitter at first, but quite palatable after certain undesirable organisms were removed from it. During the last war German scientists also experimented with plankton as a possible source of food, though without particular success. One possible way of preparing plankton would be to press it into compact "planktonburgers", which could be fried and eaten on bread."
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/support/lib/seas/seasQA/QAs/p/plankton.html#number4
I don't know the best way to include the above, but it should be in there. AThousandYoung ( talk) 17:35, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi, Just something unclear. In this article, cyanobacteria are named as an important example for phytoplankton. However, in the bacterioplankton article, they are also listed. Does anybody know what if there is a consentus about the classification? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.192.139 ( talk) 08:48, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
PLANKTON COULD LIVE IN 2 DIFFERENT WATER SALT WATER OR FRESH WATER —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.236.107.41 ( talk) 18:29, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
Plankton is a type of invertebrate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.234.4.17 ( talk • contribs)
section 2 3 4 is about the stars, planets, comets,moons.stars sre the things that are way up in the sky and they are realy minature suns.the stars are so far away that they can not be seen for 400 years just like if you was to shine a flash light at the stars they wouldent be abel to see the light for 400 years.now about the planetsthere are many planets jupiter is realy a dwaref planet because people and sieencetist belive that the planet is to small and that there dwarfes that live on jupiter.there other planets like neptune also.neptune is close to the sun but not to close.comets are the thing sthat fly bye in the skythat you always see, and sometimes people wish on them.now lets not forget about the moons.moons are so high up there is no way that you could reach it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.222.178.26 ( talk) 15:45, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
The term 'planktonic' is much more commonly used than 'planktic'. If you search google scholar, 'planktic' gets 10,400 hits while 'planktonic' gets 144,000 hits. Also the terminology should reflect usage in the scientific literature, rather than holding to what is strictly correct linguistically. Mikenorton ( talk) 13:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
... What? 60.231.4.91 ( talk) 09:22, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
I'm finding this a definite lack on a lot of biology pages -- how many species of this sort of creatures are there? I've been searching the web like mad, trying to find out how many species of a number of things are known, and plankton is one. If anyone out there knows this, even a rough estimate, it would be an excellent addition to the article. Dismalscholar ( talk) 05:41, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
It says that plankton "are any drifting organisms ( animals, plants, archaea, or bacteria)", which is a strange way of writing and not entirely correct, since there are protist plankton as well, right? Like EHUX? I would suggest that the parenthesis read "( eukaryotes, archea, or bacteria)" which also makes more sense since these classes are on the same level. I am very ignorant of the topic though so I would rather not change it myself. Bob 130.238.239.80 ( talk) 08:53, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
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Should the Plankton template contain a link to Noctiluca scintillans? I was going round in circles a bit getting confused between that and Milky seas effect but I'm not an expert. Akerbeltz ( talk) 20:53, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Hello! I just wanted to let you know that I added a hyperlink for Amphiprion ocellaris into your article. I am a part of a Behavioral Ecology Class ( /info/en/?search=Education_Program:Washington_University_in_St._Louis/Behavioral_Ecology_%28Fall_2013%29) Washington University and our assignment was to create hyperlinks from our articles to other articles as examples. Best of luck with your article!! Gseehra123 ( talk) 22:23, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
new news that needs to be added to the article. http://theweek.com/article/index/266730/speedreads-scientists-shocked-to-discover-plankton-on-exterior-of-international-space-station — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gizziiusa ( talk • contribs) 19:41, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Plumbago - NASA-WATCH REPORT (*Not* Official NASA) - Issue still up-in-the-air (so-to-speak) => < ref name="NASAW-20140821">Cowing, Keith (21 August 2014). "Russian Scientists Claim That Algae Lives On ISS Exterior (Update)". NASA Watch. Retrieved 22 August 2014.</ref> - ALSO - < ref name="NWN-20140821">Stallard, Brian (21 August 2014). "Sea Plankton Found in Space? NASA Has Doubts". NatureWorldNews.com. Retrieved 23 August 2014.</ref> - Enjoy! :) Drbogdan ( talk) 01:43, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
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I've noticed that the Mesoplancton section in the 'Size Groups' table lists 'Heteropoda', which links to the (terrestrial) spider genus, as an example. I guess this is a typo? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:9F27:3C01:14BA:82E:AF6:2A4E ( talk) 18:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
What are the types of plankton? Also are there different types of willow tarmagins in Alaska? 2601:1C2:0:64D0:3C81:2AF3:851D:ABCD ( talk) 02:04, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi all, please read this article [1] called "Our empty oceans: Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life", let me quote, "..plankton.. has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic".
I will quote from the G.O.E.S. (Global Oceanic Environmental Survey Foundation) team that has conducted the research causing them to come to their serious conclusions, which I believe should be mentioned on this Wiki page in a Section of it's own:
"We are too late to stop catastrophic climate change, but humanity will survive. We will not survive the loss of marine life over the next 25 years, unless we stop all pollution now". [2]
– unsigned entry by: Is123Biblio ( talk) 21:21, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
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The entirety of the text in subsection Plankton#Geoplankton is highly similar (almost identical) to the entirety of the text of its “see also” target, Terrestrial animal#Geoplankton (redirected from Geoplankton).
The topic could potentially one day be its own article, but for now, I think it’s probably a good idea to keep the blurb on geoplankton in one of the two places where it’s currently found, and make the other place where it’s currently found a section transclusion.
Thoughts? Mifield 05:10, 5 June 2023 (UTC)